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.