Just nicked my new strop.
I've had my Straight Razor Designs strop for less than a week and I nicked it tonight. I was trying to be careful and as soon as I touched it I hesitated and let the razor go back just a few millimeters, but it was enough to put a small gouge in the leather. It's at the bottom of the strop, so I can easily avoid it, but it's always going to serve as a reminder to keep my mind focused.
It was a beautiful strop. :(
super fine sandpaper repair
i actually just did a repair job on my strop about a week ago. it's my first strop (an Illinois #127) and it had probably about 4-5 nicks in it. i picked up some sand paper from home depot, pretty sure it was 400 grit - it was the second smoothest grit that they had, and i used really light pressure to sand out the nicks very gradually. it worked great! didn't need to use any contact cement. i actually think my strop looks even better now that it looks like it's seen some hard times haha.