Thread: Searching quality leather

I could do with a nice pair of gloves!!

Originally Posted by Jaatinen1982

Thank you Neil for useful post. I found supplier who sells swedish bridle leather and I am going to see her tomorrow. Learning some leather working techniques same time and going to choose few good hides also for first strops.

I don't like idea to waste over 50% of hide because it is not good enough. So now I have to think what else I could do with parts that are not suitable for strops.

While there,ask her if she has any Swedish single bend,That is some fantastic leather.Good luck.

That sounds faintly lewd.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

While there,ask her if she has any Swedish single bend,That is some fantastic leather.Good luck.

Originally Posted by WW243

That sounds faintly lewd.

Only in your mind Is just a type of leather.

Originally Posted by Anthony1954

I could do with a nice pair of gloves!!

I don't know about gloves but I guess it would make great straight razor cases

Living in a major town/city, it's been challenging trying to find leathers for strops. I ran across this site and surprisingly will even cut to order. I'm wondering if Horween leather would be ok to use for strops....

Brettuns Village Leather - Leather by the Piece

Once again, thanks for all your input, gentlemen
SB

Originally Posted by Steeleback

Living in a major town/city, it's been challenging trying to find leathers for strops. I ran across this site and surprisingly will even cut to order. I'm wondering if Horween leather would be ok to use for strops....

Brettuns Village Leather - Leather by the Piece

Once again, thanks for all your input, gentlemen
SB

I don't know about Horween but I am sure you can run a quick search for that and come up with something. As far as that company I have talked with them via email and they recommend their "tooling bellies" for making strops. They are around 4" by about 6 feet so there must be something good enough to make a strop and I would make a razor sleeve with some of the left over or maybe paste an imperfect piece or give to a newbie to learn on or use some to cover your lathering bowl or brush handle. There are a lot of things you could use it for.