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Here are a few strops picked up over the last half year in the UK and Germany:

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Far right is a padded paddle strop with ivory handle in dark green Morocco leather case. Not sure how much...

And please show us!

Here's an interesting one, a very small loom strop:

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In pretty good shape, just a clean with Arko lather followed by a bit of neatsfoot:

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Yes, I also find this works very well. The first oiling of this strop was after cleaning with saddle soap because it was so filthy, the oil went on straight afterwards, and within a day it was floppy...

It does look good, and it was a good exercise. Sadly I think the leather itself it almost too far gone. I did manage to get *almost* all of the abrasive out, by lathering and scraping gently, which I...

The Biber story continues to be good and bad...

First thing was that all the stitching was totally rotten:

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I knew it was worn, but I didn't realise at first that it had lost all its...

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The old Biber looks to be a venerable old strop. I've done a bit of work on it since these pictures were taken, and there is good news and bad...

Another strop story which I'm pulling into this thread...

The story so far is here: https://sharprazorpalace.com/workshop/105743-what-you-working-post1900522.html

The most useful response to my...

With respect to the first strop in the opening post, the hanging strop, this one has come out really well:

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A few things to say: one of the questions earlier in the thread was about...

I decided to update this thread, partly to get everything in one place, and partly to avoid burdening other threads with absurd levels of detail on restoring strops that were probably not worth...

Mmmm... I'll have a look at that, thanks.

Won't help with the fabric problem though...

So, this is where we are up to with the hanging strop. Of course, this is an exercise, this isn't a valuable or particularly good strop, but the idea is to get the feel of things in case a really...

Thank you! Very useful, but by the time I've bought those bits I could have bought the new version of this strop. Also, this one is 45mm wide, and the parts here are wider. Next post shows where we...

Yes it does!

I've read as much as I can on the forums here. And I'm no stranger to leather. But for example, I'm still a bit unsure about how to wash the linen on the hanging strop without...

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm in no rush!

Evening chaps,

I picked up some old strops in a box of old stuff from a long-gone barber's shop. Before I go in heavy-handed, I'm wondering what the thinking on restoration in the forum is.
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