Thread: First vintage shell strop!

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 fugue state like Walter White in Breaking Bad). I hung 'em all from a DIY rosewood display I banged together in the shop, and currently have this collection:

I hope to get some more when funds allow. But when you get a good one (as you did!), I was blown away by the quality and smoothness of the leather for what I paid for mine. For those of us who don't have the scratch for a Kanayama or other spendy new shell strop and just love the vintage stropping vibe on vintage razors, it is a fun rabbit hole to fall down. Enjoy! Aaron

edit: The four in the middle are the vintage ones. The Wagner (#2 from the left) is just a superb piece of thick and slick shell. The DublDuck at #4 and the Alfred Field at #5 is especially slick and is the final finishing strop in my evolving progression.