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Hi Kevin,
Could I ask – why do you feel a need to heat the leather? Is it because the temperature is very cold in your workshop? The real problem is that the wax holding the abrasive compound together is too hard. You will also find that you need far less of the abrasive on the strop. They work best when there is minimal abrasive on the leather – indeed some have said on this forum that you technically don’t need any abrasive at all on a strop. A few drops of oil or kerosene softens the compound up enough to spread it throughout the leather. If you get compound coming off the strop on the tool being honed, then you have too much compound on the strop.
Mark