Banned user or no, I will add to his op that I too started on a Tony Miller 3" latigo. Even taking it out of the box, I knew it was and is a beautiful, well-crafted strop, and that I had to be careful with it.

My theory was that I knew I had to be careful with such an expensive 1st strop. So I was, and am, and years later, it has very few nicks after many thousands of laps. There are many roads to sharp.