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    Default Paste recommendations for canvas side of hanging strop?

    I know there's much debate about the use of the canvas side of the strop, and whether to paste or not. I need some advice for my #1 hanging strop which is on it's way to me from Tony at the moment.

    My options are:

    1. Leave it without anything on.

    2. Apply a little Thiers Issard strop paste* as I have some here already.

    3. Buy a different strop paste.

    I already have a belgian yellow coticle, and a double sided paddle with 1uM and 0.5uM diamon pastes.

    Any suggestions?

    I'd prefer to make best use of what I already have and avoid buying more kit at this point in time.

    Thanks.

    * http://www.classicshaving.com/catalo...944/564416.htm

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    I like the TI paste but on a Tm strop I would say you would be wasting it. The Linen on TM's strops has a very deep pile and the paste would be lost bar the weave that shows upper most. I use the TI paste on a Dovo strop linen and it works great. Dovo's linen paste is also very good but not anywhere near as abrasive as the TI but still gets the job done.
    My TM strop linen I just worked it hard with a pumice stone and thick lather repeatedly till "flatter" and it works a treat now. Cost nothing to do as well
    You don't have to do anything to the linen I must point out, though buffing with a pumice stone evens the surface well on a TM strop.

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    Ah ok - thanks. I'll try buffing it with a pumice stone and some shaving lather then, it feels a bit "bumpy" in standard form.

    I don't mind using the TI paste if it's worthwhile, I have it already and it's not like I'm going to use it on anything else really...

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    I would wait for Tony to join before you make a move on it. Tony may know whats best for his linen. I have just applied what I know to get the results I like.

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    I may buy a cigarillo to see what effect the ash will have when applied to linen.

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    I usualy leave the linen alone but tastes vary. Some guys feel my linen is too coarse other say, finally! a coarse linen.............to each his own <g>.

    Puff's method sounds interesting and seems as though it may raise a terry cloth like napp on the linen which may work well. I may try one to see.

    I just sent a real linen strop off to Kees for testing as he found me a source for the stuff. It will be interesting to see how it performs for him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Miller View Post
    I usualy leave the linen alone but tastes vary. Some guys feel my linen is too coarse other say, finally! a coarse linen.............to each his own <g>.

    Puff's method sounds interesting and seems as though it may raise a terry cloth like napp on the linen which may work well. I may try one to see.

    I just sent a real linen strop off to Kees for testing as he found me a source for the stuff. It will be interesting to see how it performs for him.

    Tony
    What would you recommend for the leather side?
    I have the honey brown, and I think it does what it is supposed to do, but I have read that some people lather it or treat it with pumice
    a) is this useful
    b) won't lather damage the strop, since it is wet?

    My preference is to leave it alone if it works, but I am curious.

    Also, would it be a problem to use the linen each time before I go to the leather?
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    I keep mine clean and have no plans to change that.

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    Default Paste recomendations for canvas side of hanging strop

    Just to chime in. I use Dovo white paste on Tony's canvas side but just on the edges. More to stop the canvass from shedding than sharpening the razor.

    On some other strops, I use Ivory soap, plain old bar, again, just on the edges to stop the linen from sheding.

    But this is only me. I think that, by the time that razor hits the bathroom, honning, polishing is over. The razor is now on my good strop, so I just strop it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
    What would you recommend for the leather side?
    I have the honey brown, and I think it does what it is supposed to do, but I have read that some people lather it or treat it with pumice
    a) is this useful
    b) won't lather damage the strop, since it is wet?

    My preference is to leave it alone if it works, but I am curious.

    Also, would it be a problem to use the linen each time before I go to the leather?
    If you have a Tony Miller Honey brown, I would recommend you do not use the lather and pumice treatment or any moisture method fullstop.
    I found the leather on my strop stretched a lot with this treatment as such I had to re-mount it without the linen. Tonys strops do not have the capasity to take up the stretch like some strops do, being that his are fixed linen to leather at both ends. I will add that the treatment did make the strop a real "Honey" though
    I made my Latigo and Honey into a duel leather strop and made the linen into a linen-linen only strop, one side treated. great combo I found.

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