When I hone, I usually use a layer of tape, sometimes 2. My question is when I go to daily stropping that razor. Theoretically, you should use the tape if you want to get to the edge but I know that would be impractical and no one does it, at least for the day to day strop. Any thoughts?
And... while talking about strops, I spoke with Jim at Imperial shave and he recommended a strop that had suede instead of linen. He said it was good if you wanted to use CBN or CrOx on it. I was never fond of the linen on my other strops and was wondering if the suede would be a good substitute for linen even if I decided not to put any abrasives on it?