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Alan,

After reading your post I made up some lather with Trumpers coconut oil shave cream, coated my strop, and let it dry about 6 hours. It works, but I think I like the William's best so far....

And some are more blissfull than others :w :D ;)

I have a couple of old barber school text books:

Standard Textbook of Barbering, 1950
The Barbers Manual by A.B. Moler

and some barber shop collectables books such as:

Barbershop History...

In fact this is a very old technique used by barbers years ago.

Scott

This is a good, inexpensive way to condition your leather and put some good draw on it.

I use William's shaving soap for this (it's cheap and it's a decent shaving soap. I use it everyday), but...