Thread: Cloth Component Questions

So, I am about to purchase a Tony Miller horsehide strop... I had planned on getting Horsehide and linen, and then going Linen - Latigo - Horsehide, and using the cotton on my old Latigo for some CrOx... Turns out TM is out of Linen... Would you guys suggest another Cotton, and just paste one of them, or the Nylon for stropping, and my old cotton for paste, or getting the hard wool felt and horsehide to paste the wool, and use cotton to strop.

Decisions, decisions... Whaddaya suggest?

You can put your paste on just about anything, felt, denim, leather, canvas, even balsa wood from the hobby/hardware store. Its just a matter of preference.

Well I've never tried anything but the cotton, and had planned on linen, but it's out of stock, so I was reall;y trying to get an opinion based on everyone's preferences.

So you have an old latigo/cotton. You could reasonably go with horsehide/latigo and use one of the latigo strops for paste. Personally, I have better results with paste on leather for some reason. That way you could keep your current latigo/cotton and use the new one for an everyday/finisher.

That's a good idea, but a good deal too costly for me, unfortunately...

No, it has to be horsehide and some fabric... I'm personally leaning towards another cotton, but want to try out, or at least get feedback on, the Nylon...

I wish the linen was still in stock, but I /really/ don't want to wait until mid January

Tony's cotton is really nice. Unless you plan on sticking out the linen drought, I would go with cotton again.

**for the record the $7.50 practice strop is a superb paste option

Cotton it is... I wanted to experiment with the others, but, why not stick with 2 cottons since my current one pulls it's own weight and then some... Make one a paster... Thanks, Ookla.

Also, I had one of the practice strops, but it went to a donation to another member, and I'm partial to 3'' strops... just my "thing"... I want to buy a legitimate 2.5 inch strop so I can give it a try, but if it doesn't work as well as my 3, I don't want to have wasted the money

Ooookay, now I'm in a pickle.

I'm looking at TM's site.. I did my math wrong. I can, in fact get a Latigo/horsehide strop, which would leave me with one Cotton/pasted latigo strop, and one Horsehide/latigo strop,

Or I could go with Horsehide and cotton. Leaving me with a Latigo/pasted cotton, and Horsehide/cotton...

Which would be the better?

ok so you have cotton, latigo and are getting horsehide for sure.
and want to experiement with pastes....

that means you should get either the wool or the webbing.

remember that each component has two surfaces and the fabric ones are functionally the same on both sides.

why don't you experiment on your current strop first? you can see what a paste would do on the reverse of the latigo component and on the cotton.

The wool is better for pasting, and the nylon is higher friction for pre-stropping correct?

'Cause I'm thinking I may just bite my knuckle and wait for the linen to reemerge, so I can paste on my cotton, and use the linen pre-leather...

Is that a good course of action... Or should I just go with nylon or wool?


and thanks for the help