I looked up that little diddy about the tanning process. Thank's for the info.

On Hand American's site they have some info about these.

http://www.handamerican.com/leatherinfo.html#Diamond%20Cut%20(Russian%20Style)



So I take it the back of this strop (one side (front?) is brown with logos, the back is red with a diamond cut) is the sharpen side and the brown is the finish? It looks like the red side was never used.

I just tried it and the red diamond side has a real nice draw.