Thread: Woven polyester canvas?

I use an old guitar strap as a strop because it's 2 and a half inches wide and I have a few laying around. Works great.
But being new to this whole thing, stropping included, I see a lot of posts and vids where people are using some type of cloth, then following that with leather. I have seen a SR Designs video called "Straight Razor Stropping for Beginners that mentions a poly/web material they use for the cloth part of this.
I have an old nylon or poly strap that would work well in this application, possibly. Can anyone confirm that this material will work?

I'm unsure whether the folds and creases will have any impact, either.

There is only one way to find out. Wash it in luke warm water and Woolite. Hang it up vertically to dry with a weight at the bottom so it will dry straight without all those wrinkles. DO NOT iron it. It will either work or it won't

Thanks. I'll give it a whirl.

Cheaper nylong guitar straps are of a similar material to the poly webbing on the back of many strops. If you can get it straight and flat, it will likely work.

I will have to look at some of my old poly straps and compare the weave tonight when I get home.

rbaker, thanks. The strap's 3" wide, so it would be ideal.

Yes it will work, maybe.

You will most probably never be able to get all the dirt out. One grit imbedded in the weave can scratch and chip an edge.

Most probably it is not Canvas, canvas is a special weave of which one of the properties is it does not easily unravel like Denim does.

I make Polyester/Sail cloth strops that work great with just a cut edge. It unravels a bit but not much. You can make a bunch of strops from a yard of Sailcloth.

You can also buy pol/nylon strapping from most fabric stores for a couple of dollars a yard, 2 strops.

The finer the weave the better the performance/polish.