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Here's the link for canvas strops of yore...

OK, here's my latest:

Canvas is there as a base for applying pastes etc to, which is something you can't do with your regular stropping surface.

In the barbers' manuals of olden times they say...

Aha, but I think this falls under the category of looking far a shave that cuts whiskers like it is "a hot knife through butter"....:p

Yeah, the reference I found was something like that one, but an older version, and it seemed to have non-rubberized canvas, just straight canvas....


How about this for a test of co-efficient...

I think the canvas is effective as a "first step" because it does have a higher coefficient of friction than the smooth latigo.

I did a search one time and came up with an old engineering...