Thread: Does anyone have any experience with this strop paste?

Apart from what I may have said elsewhere, my take is that these pastes are best use with limited surface areas, like the Herold tensioned loom strop or the paddle with felt underlying the leather, or the four-surface Thiers paddle. For larger, hanging vegetable-tanned strops sanded to provide some tooth surface, these are best used as criss-cross locating markers along the strop's length, followed by a charging with red ferric oxide pigment and black ferric oxide pigment.