Thread: Cautionary Tale (Kittens are evil)

Originally Posted by RayClem

Recently, we were painting our bathroom. I know it is not ideal to keep strops in the bathroom, but I do anyway. While painting, I took them off the wall and laid them neatly on top of the dresser. A couple of days later , I found the strops on the floor, the work of one of my two cats. When I went to hang them back on the wall, I found some cat scratches on my Tony Miller No. 2 Novotan Horsehide strop. The strop is still usable, but it is no longer in pristine condition. Drats! But as outback says, you can't stay mad at them for long.

If the scratches are very light, try rubbing the surface with a damp/wet cloth then let the strop air dry. Water causes the leather to swell a bit and close the scratches up. If the scratches are deeper, you can sand a strop. Iwasaki describes it in his book in the barber’s chapter, but basically block sand starting from anywhere around 80-320, then halving the grits until finishing on 1000-2000 grit. 80 grit will finish leather finer than wood, and as you go up in grit the leather will get darker and of course, slicker.

Too bad. That was a nice looking handle.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Okay, my boys would never do that.
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Should have gotten a dog.
I'm just yanking your chain. Sometimes they can make you want to kill them no matter which one...but I still think you should have gotten a dog

Looks guilty of something...