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