I had a little visit with MVCrash yesterday. He's working on building a full setup of bench strops for razor maintenance with pastes. One of the things he talked about is using tape while using a pasted paddle or bench strop. Coincidentally I've also been using tape when I go to a paddle strop whether it's pasted or not.

The idea here is that on a razor that has been honed with tape, you will get better edge contact on the flat surface of a paddle. On a hanging strop there is slack, so you can strop without tape. In my own experiments, I've definitely gotten better edge contact while using tape.

I know some will disagree with this but I figured I will share for the purpose of discussion.