Happened to be chatting about this the other day, about resting the blade, or allowing the blade to "fin", was interesting for one observation I thought.

If resting the blade is true, then stropping afterwards can only potentially damage or is not good for the razor, or so the thinking goes.

If you just put it away after a shave, clean of course, and then when you come to use it and normally strop the blade, then it's business as usual.

So either way the blade will get stropped, and with fewer strokes on the strop, less chance of any damage anyway.

I don't strop the blade after a shave anymore, was hard to argue that point....as the saying goes, just sayin'