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@nickyspaghetti
Pasted strops do remove steel. Yes they will never remove nicks, but the grey colour of mine shows that they remove a significant amount.
The big problem is that they also can round over your edge a little, making it hard to then resharpen once the paste no longer works, so I try to only do a couple of passes just to smooth a little bit before stopping on plain leather.