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Gentlemen,

The only component I like on a strop aside from the leather is fine natural linen. The linen on the Kanayama is far from that, and stropping on it is like stropping on an Armadillo....

OZ,
Yes, I am in the process of washing the linen component. How it will come out who knows.

Actually, I do enjoy stropping immensely. It relaxes me. That's why I run up high numbers on strokes. Also, as I noted earlier, I use a short stropping space, thus the reason for the higher number of...

Spendur, actually I have a Mastro Livi strop on order and am looking forward to using it.

Gentlemen,

I use only leather on the Kanayama followed by palm stropping. This seems to put a sweeter edge on my blades. The linen didn't seem to do much for me, and I no longer have the Kanayama...