So, this is a simple one... Which do you prefer? (I know a lot of people prefer the plain, cut off barber's end, but if we could keep it to the two, handles and D-rings)

I started on a TM 3" Latigo with Handles, then got a 3" TM Horsehide with D-rings (4 D-rings, which I then put 2 of on the Latigo) at this point I prefered the D-Ring grip... However, a recent trip to Mr. Abram's house, and a chance to play around with -and learn from- his strops/stropping showed me something that I didn't quite get before. When stropping, don't let the strop hang, however, you don't need to pull it tight as a board. You can give it some slack, rather than cramping the hell outta your arm. Then I got to play with his Bridle strop... Needless to say, I bought one for myself the same night after testing his.

Well, my Bridle has handles, and I still have 2 TM handles, so that brings me to 4 handles, and 4 D-rings for 6 handle-less strops.

I liked D-rings when I wanted everything tight as a nun's.... Nevermind. now that I know a little less tension isn't a bad thing, I find handles to be comfier again... The way I currently have it configured is with my two pasting cloths (TM nylon and TM felt) using the D-Rings, and my 4 every-day strops (TM latigo, TM Horsehide, SRD Bridle, and SRD webbed fabric) getting the handles, because obviously I use them more... I may pick up handles for the Paster's, or I may just quit being so anal/OCD about it...

After all this rambling... What do you guys prefer? Do you like different handles on different lengths? Maybe you use the different handles like bookmarks? or are you just a One handle guy? (or gal)

Cheers,
Jeremy