As I've been shaving for a few weeks now, I'm getting more comfortable with my stropping. However, there are a couple tiny nicks in the strop from my first week. They are all at the end of the stroke, what happened was I flipped the razor over before I stopped moving it, and the edge caught the strop.

Anyway, what's the proper way to treat the nicks? Should I remove the leather that flips up when I go against its cut? Out of 3 or so nicks, only one is an issue, the others seem to lay down fine on their own. I'm just worried that the small difference in the surface will affect my razor.

One thing I haven't done yet is apply any of the strop conditioner that Tony sent with the strop. I figured I wouldn't need to until the strop felt dry or slick. Should I apply some?

Thanks!