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I see! This is not something 'we' know then. Many thanks!

Thank you! I have Herold Red and Black pastes. But I don't think I've seen many (or any?) contemporary strops pasted with black paste from the get-go. The Aluminiograf strop I have was very black,...

A fortuitous breakthrough in the Mystery of the Bowed Paddle Strop!

It seems the one I saw for sale a few weeks ago has been re-listed:

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You can see the bright green...

Apparently no cell in the human body lives longer than seven years...

Hmmm... food for thought, thank you! I could always try it with red, and put green on afterwards if I don't like it.

As you rightly imply, we have already moved quite a way from the original, we...

I decided to re-appraise this conclusion, and cleaned up both the leather and the wood:

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The leather was lightly dressed with neatsfoot oil, and after a few days to soak in, it was...

I found this picture on the web:

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I assume that the case is for the paddle-style strop, so when we see 'convex strop', it doesn't necessarily refer to the same style as the one I have, it...

Very interesting! Shame there is no illustration. I will try to figure out what it might be called in German, and do a web search, given that the two examples I've seen have been in Germany.

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No doubt it was made this way. Damn shame I forgot to save the pictures of the other one I saw, it was in much better shape. The wood (for the stropping surface) looks like pine or cedar maybe? Light...

I've just finished getting this this old paddle strop back in shape, and wondered what the point of the convex stropping surface was:

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As can be seen, one face is...