Thread: neurotic cleaning

I'll tell you I went through a stage where I was buying strops left and right, all vintage. I think I have a strop made from every animal that ever walked or crawled on the earth and I spent I don't know how much tome polishing brass fittings and cleaning them up and all that. So I have all these strops and they just sit there. I use my two strops from Tony the Latigo and Horsehide. The fact is they are better than any of the vintage strops I have. That includes some NOS Vintage strops like my 2 DDs a horseshell and a cow and my red Imp and Page belting Horse.

I know wat you are saying man. I'm a big fan of my Tony miller strop and I'm planning to get the latigo to add to my collection. But I still want to get this strop up and usable, in case I decide to sell it or to give it as a gift.

If you want to try and get those last sposts out, and aren't in that much of a hurry, you might apply a dilute bleach solution and hang it out in some of that blazing Hawaiian sunshine for a couple days -

-whatever

-Lou

I learned a quick less toxic method that really worked for me, oxyclean! i just soaked the linen, rinsed then let it dry. It turned almost black linen white again.
for the really bad spots use it as a paste with a tooth brush.