That's an Interesting One..Yeah...I Do Strop after that..I Also Go onto 0.2 Micron Red Rhodium Paste for 10 Sets before Going on to Leather..I have Yet to See an Edge Yet that Cant be Refined with a Paste..Lynn Abrams Speaks about this & I Fall into that Camp..There are So May Tools and Methods for Different Folks..
Some of the Guys that Use Natural Finishers Don't Use Pastes Cause they Want to Feel the Edge from the Natural Stone..That's Fine..The Reason Being for Some is that the Paste Media will Change the Edge to Something Else..These things are All Personal..
I Could Shave from 0.5 Film without Stropping & Maintain an Edge without Stropping for Sure..But that Method is Just Not for Me..This Guy here Doesn't Strop at All to maintain his SRs..
Billy