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As far as I'm concerned, true shell horsehide is absolutely the most desirable stropping surface, and certainly the smoothest and slickest. There's a reason so many of the vintage ones are shell.
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Careful, my friend-I bought a nice vintage shell from Bouschie aka Leonard early this summer. I then went kinda crazy on ebay for a couple weeks buying more of them (not sure, I may have been in a...