Quote Originally Posted by Banjoman84 View Post
It's about 22 inches from hook to handle. 12 1/2 inches of stropping leather, 2 inches wide. The reverse side is white fabric woven in a way that the stitches move in a "V" fashion from either side meeting in the middle and pointing towards the hook at the top. It looks like there's a few nicks on the swede side of the leather. I asked about the oil because I thought it would need it to preserve the strop. Also there are a bunch of ....wrinkles is what I'll call them. Kinda like it's starting to dry out, but I'm not a 100% on that.
Banjoman

This is a cut and paste from the wiki, and may be pertinent to your strop.

Stiffness or wrinkles
Some physical influences, such as dust, dirt, or longer periods of non-use, may cause your strop to become stiff and make a scratching sound when stropping. Trying to rectify this by rolling it quite tightly is wrong and will cause your strop to become wrinkled. It will lose most if not all of its functionality.
In most cases, the stiffness is likely from non-use and this is where a brisk rubbing with the hand would warm and soften it again. Scratchy sounds are likely dirt and dust on the surface, again from sitting unused. You should always keep strops hanging and do rub each with the hands before use to wipe the surface clean. If the rubbing will not bring it back to life, rubbing Neat's Foot Oil onto the palms of the hands and then rubbing the strop would work.
Rolling a strop tightly may kill it. Rolling tightly with the smooth side out will stretch the skin and if hard may actually create very fine micro-tears in the surface, rolling skin side in will instantly buckle the surface skin and that can never be fully corrected. Neat's Foot Oil and the bottle rolling may help but once an actual bump forms in the skin it is done.

Never, ever roll a strop skin side in and always rub with the hands before using to clean the surface of dust and grit.[3]

Here's the link and there's lots more good info in it. Strop treatment and repair - Straight Razor Place Wiki

Hope this helps, and I sure wish your intro into straights would have been a more positive experience. And, maybe from here on it will be!!

Kind Regards,
Howard