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Never tried it as a strop, Jimmy. I do know that it is incredibly hard, though. And abrasive! I helped out once on a fishing boat landing tope - a type of small shark. They thresh about like...

Like Martin says, shark skin strops were made from 'splits' of leather. Shark hide is rather thick, and a special machine called a 'skiver' was used to split it into three sections or so, depending...