Ok the pile of information is proving to be a little bit overwhelming. Let me try to get some of my questions answered.

I see leather strops, canvas strops, hanging, hand held, some that use a paste and some that do not.

Correct me if I am wrong but what I picked up is that I need a plain leather strop as well as a canvas one to keep the edge on my razor. Where does the paste come in? Does any strop use paste or only some? Do I need one that uses paste?

Basically I want to know the bare minimum that I need to get myself started.

I apologize for asking all this when there is a million threads on stroping, I just see too much info at once to pick out the bare minimum.

Thanks,

Dan