Tony #1 Heirloom

I managed to restrain myself for 6 weeks, using the free starter strop to learn proper stropping (proper meaning not slicing the strop).
But I finally used my 3" wide honey brown #1 heirloom.

The starter strop is a good strop and it gave good results, so I almost started thinking: 'maybe I should've bought a cheaper TM'

What a difference...

The feeling is totally different. I would almost say: stropping on velvet.
I am still convinced that the starter strop suffices, but the #1 is truly a work of art.

Yeah, I am going to have to get me one of those some time. I have a #3 honey brown. It is a good strop, but I learned on it, and I nicked it up a bit :cry:. Some day, when I have some more money to blow on this, I will get another strop, but for now the #3 works well.