Hi Jim,
I had to go grab a razor and do a few test passes... trying to replicate by feel the same pressure as is typical for me, it reads in the 10 to15 g range on my cheap kitchen scale. ( Just a micky mouse kinda test but it's hard to convey that type of thing else ways). I pull the strop quite tight ( as a bald-ass guess, i'd say in the range of applying about 10 + lbs of pull,) and the strop deflects considerably less than a centimeter with a pass (eye-balled).
back and forth from the computer to the strop
I've tried all kinds of pressure just now, hard and loose, hard with a hard pull, light and loose, light with a hard pull, hard pull and typical pressure (trust me, I'm not above re-examining my stropping technique) and I get a very zippy type of noise and a definate vibration I can feel in the bones of my left hand and in my back teeth. It's more pronounced in one direction over the other. As a side note, I tried turning around and holding the strop so i was approaching it from the opposite end, and it seems obvious that particular phenomenon is just a function of the weave. (and not really a concern to me in any way)
There is also a huge difference in the vibrations created in direct correlation to the grind of the razor. My giant meat-chopper is dead silent, with almost no noise or vibration, and my most hollow razor, a Dovo Blackstar, is so loud it can be heard in the living room, and generates the most uncomfortable vibrations.
It does feel remarkably similar to the vintage linen I have, the difference in my mind being simply that the K hasn't had the use the vintage linen has had, so the sensation and sound from the vintage is much more muted. It makes me think that the issue i have with my Kanayama are a function of my own ... what's the word? not prejudices , but early experience with the V Blades and TM have predisposed me a certain way. I guess I keep repeating that similarity, because that seems like a very important point to me, and I'm fascinated by the pontetial of that... It's what makes me contemplate the old idea of sanding and treatments. A lot of old strops are treated with all kinds of gunk; waxes, soaps, pastes, sandings, and none of those seem suitable with the single light layers of linen like the TM. Those other types of strops like the Kanayama, and i hope Torolf's strops that are due to arrive shortly, are meaty, with lots of material to work with, a good medium to work with, so to speak.
Sorry Jim... probably much more answer than you were expecting.... I have a very boring job... so I think about this shit all day long....

It good to get it out!
Kind regards,
-Chris