Vintage strop

[Chugach68]

I cleaned up an old strop that I picked up. I cleaned and conditioned the leather, and ran the canvas through the washing machine to clean all the dirt/gunk off. The questions I have are: The leather seems VERY slick compared to my other strops. Is this normal with some leathers? The canvas seems very coarse and rough. Almost afraid of using for fear of damaging the edge on my razors. The go to strop that I use has the nylon type cleaning strop and the leather side gives me some resistance while stropping. Any comments would be appreciated