So I'm not sure if it's the summer humidity or just hanging in a bathroom for 6 months, but the leather strop I bought from Tony Miller back in February has grown a full half inch longer than the linen back. That, or the linen back has shrunk. The leather used to be able to be pulled taught enough that it about evened out, but over time, it wasn't possible, and there was actually a hump in the leather as I stretched it.

The linen was secured to the leather with 6 screws (3 on either end), and the screws went through holes that did not stretch Laziness prevented me from separating the linen from the leather, and I continued to strop on the leather, until I noticed that I had nicked my leather because of the hump. I nicked it on the side and I nicked it right in the middle of the strop.

This just makes me mad. Do any of you folks have problems with leather stretching or linen shrinking? I'm thinking that the holes in the linen would better be converted to slits, but the leather is so much longer than the linen now, if I tried to turn the holes into slits, they slits would run right off the edge of the linen.