Thread: Nicked my stop good (i.e. I was stupid)

So... I have been slowly practicing using my straight razor on my face and on my strop. Like a genius I nicked my strop while stropping. I took out a triangle sized bit on the side that is around 1 cm X 1 cm. I know that this is not good, but what can I do? Will it hurt my blade to continue stropping despite the nick? I might add that the stop is still generally smooth, just a small bump. I would really like to avoid buying a new stop (or just the leather half if I can find just that). Any tips, tricks, or miraculous solutions are all greatly appreciated.

This article should help: Strop treatment and repair - Straight Razor Place Wiki.

is there ridges around the nick?

Will there be pictures?

is it possible to turn the leather upside down?

if 1 is no and you dont feel it when stropping it will probably not do any damage

Here is a picture of what happened to my razor, with a dime in there to give you some perspective.

Pic is not showing up for me.

I nicked my starter strop right in the middle pretty good. I cut the hanging part off and sanded the whole strop. Then I did the lather and beer bottle trick. Still worked good until I got my SRD English Bridle strop.

So I have not mastered posting images up here on SRP yet, but I have a link to the image.

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Let me know if the depth of this nick means doom or not.

oh just that...
i imagined that you had cut a piece out of the side of the strop

good wetdry sandpaper or a pumice stone to round off the edges should be all you need to do

So all i need to do is get some regular wood sandpaper and smooth out that small region there?

That doesn't look too bad. Just use some wet/dry sandpaper like 3M with a fine grit rating (1000) to smooth it out.