I really hate posting this. So I have a perfectly good 2 1/2" Strop, couple little feathery lifts of leather at the hand end....I'm doing the hand warming ritual and actually enjoying it...then I read about some guy putting the strop across his forehead....and I think...you know, being as I wash my hands now about 248 times a day.....I probably could use a little more natural oil. That went ok and nothing really changed on the strop...just some smudgy spots which I did not care about that much......but I could not stop there, I think I have a tube around that has that yellow stripe and decide to put a very small amount into my palm, rub my hands together and really smoke that strop. My strop just went from 60 to 15.....it is so damn slow now.....has anyone else been this ignorant and does the speed ever come back. I really dislike this draw and it has taken the fun out of stropping.