Thread: Decent Strops

Originally Posted by Nickayl

I saw somewhere that the felt on the "Big Daddy" wasn't all that great. What are it's draw backs, if there are any?

Haven't heard that myself. If there are any drawbacks, I haven't experienced any. Fit/finish is great and it performs as I expect it to.

How does the felt work with pastes?

I use the felt as is. I prefer to keep any paste away from my strops. I would imagine felt would work well for pastes though, just not my preference.

For pastes, I made myself a paddle strop of sorts, using strips of denim. I cut up some 8x3 strips of it, attached magnetic tape/roll to the back of it, and another onto the wooden paddle. This way I can swap out the denim pieces which have different pastes on them. Have one with crox,irox, and TI paste. It works pretty well and only cost about $5 for the piece of wood that I made into a handle... and an old pair of jeans...