so i got a big daddy from star shaving and there are somethings make it feel uncomfortable to strop on. maybe i am being a bit unfair since this is my new strop and in the past i had a russian shell certyfd that i really got used to. so here is my experience with the big daddy the first thing i noticed was the extreme draw compared to my russian shell strop to the point that i could not make a very smooth pass. the other nuance i found is that the strop seem to cup upwards so by the end of a stroke only the center of the blade is making contact which forces me to do the x pattern. so at the time i am not really happy neither mad, but i did buy the strop because it was slightly longer than the srd and because it is wider than my old certyfd strop. my questions are; is there something that i can do to slightly reduce the draw or will it just break in? can the cupping issue be fixed? can i accelerate the break in period?

please do let me know since before after honing or before a shave i used to be able to get my razors to pass the hht and now this strop has made me lose that.