I fully agree it was never my intention to confuse anybody, I was replying to a post that implied that a napped leather strop was somehow stupid and felt the need to step up and say I use such a strop and it works very well indeed, as you say someone new at this should stick with a normal strop and learn how to use that before experimening with anything else. P.
I would like to like it clear that I didn't mean using napped leather is stupid - it is a perfectly good stropping medium - only that I'd rather not have a paddle with two sides of the same material. No offense meant