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  1. 03-22-2007, 05:45 PM #1
    FredS
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    Got your strop today, thanks wojeck! suprinsingly fast shipping to canada! Oh and by the way, same situation, the smoother side appears to be on the back side under the linen strap. I guess i'll sand the rough side to see what happens, what grit should i use. Worse case scenario i'll cut out the linen side. I was planning to use this strop for paste anyway so no big deal.
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  2. 03-22-2007, 07:26 PM #2
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    Hmmm. Now I'm starting to wonder.
    If indeed these are intended for military use as I suspect, perhaps the linen/rough leather strop is supposed to be used in a similar fashion to the Illinois 837 (I think, don't have it in front of me) Russian leather strop, which also has a rough texture on the stropping surface?
    I don't know. Something to mess around with when the first 2 sided strop arrives.
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  3. 03-22-2007, 10:26 PM #3
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    Hey Fred, how long was the transit time to Canada? I'm looking forward to holding this thing.
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  4. 03-23-2007, 01:55 AM #4
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    Suprisingly fast no more then two weeks, i got it today, i dont remember exactly when i ordered it, but it couldnt have been more then two weeks ago. Might even be one week.
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  5. 03-23-2007, 06:40 AM #5
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    I just tried sanding the rough side too, and it just seems to remove loads of leather without smoothing the surface at all. Maybe it is meant to be used on this rough side. I'm not that experienced in this so maybe It is meant to be like this.
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  6. 03-23-2007, 02:50 PM #6
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    This is sounding more and more like my Illinois Russian strop, the stropping surface is rough, and unfortunately these days, its one of those things where even the manufacturer may not even know why they are made this way, just that they keep on making them. I've heard various things, and there are even texts about what to do (I've clogged up a pumice stone and spent hours with lather and a large bottle) to them.
    Ultimately just like the rest of this stuff we are having to re-learn, we'll just have to experiment with it. Lucky for us, the razors aren't expensive, either....time to play.

    By the way, the plain strop (no linen) is a smooth surface strop; more like we are used to using.
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  7. 03-23-2007, 05:57 PM #7
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