You bring up a good point. Yes all restored. I’ve set the bevels twice for all, it’s my general practice with anything that’s had rust on it or restoration unless I see pitting that may effect the integrity of the edge, then I’ll just keep honing until I’m through it, kill the edge and then set again. That being said I have passed a razor over that strop that I had only cleaned the rust off the spine with a single edge razor, then rubbed it down with a slightly oiled rag to get the particles off that had loosened up. I wonder, they’re may have been some loose crud on there still and then contaminated the strop. This would make sense, I did not have any problems at first with the strop, seems like it started a week ago. I’ve had the strop for at least two weeks now. I would expect to see something on the surface though. If I run my hand over it it feels perfectly smooth. I’m stumped.