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You really like the Kanayama cotton strops? IMHO they are mediocre. Mine had one or 2 knots on the front of the strop that I had to push to the other side.

Interesting: I have been contemplating replacing my Kanayama coton strop with a flax linen strop. Linen works so much better than cotton. Flax, jute and hemp have one thing in common: they are bark...

I have been experimenting with various genuine linen webbings, never felt the need to break them in.

As PuFFaH said.