Thread: Pasting a strop--a photo tutorial

Great Tutorial.

I have a Tony Miller travel strop which is Latego (sp?) but the back side is not smooth. It has a rough, raw-hide grain. I've been thinking of getting some kind of paste and using it on this rough, back side.

Do you think this will work? Or does the strop have to be smooth?

Thanks,

-- Aubrey Granner

Great post Josh. I was just asking Tony about this earlier in the week. I hadn't seen this yet.

Jordan

Originally Posted by agranner

Great Tutorial.

I have a Tony Miller travel strop which is Latego (sp?) but the back side is not smooth. It has a rough, raw-hide grain. I've been thinking of getting some kind of paste and using it on this rough, back side.

Do you think this will work? Or does the strop have to be smooth?

Thanks,

-- Aubrey Granner

The flesh side of leather makes a great surface for holding pastes. Diamond pastes are much better I found on the flesh/back side. With Green Oxide, I put it on the surface after slightly dampening the leather to open the pores on the skin side and just dry applied on the flesh side. With your Latigo strop I would advise a light sanding with 120-180 grit sand paper to make sure the surface has no bad spots and to raise a light nap. Apply the powder dry but sparingly till a light green haze is over the whole surface. Oils in the Latigo will hold the powder.

PuFF

I got a bar of chromium oxide in bar form. Instead of reading this sticky, I ran the bar over the back of one of my hanging strops. It spread unevenly. It appears I should shave the bar into a bowl and add water to get a more even spread. Am I correct?

Originally Posted by CloseShave

I got a bar of chromium oxide in bar form. Instead of reading this sticky, I ran the bar over the back of one of my hanging strops. It spread unevenly. It appears I should shave the bar into a bowl and add water to get a more even spread. Am I correct?

I just did this the other day and it works very easily.... Use whatever strop dressing yer going to use (I used neets foot) Take a very fine cheese grater and shave some of the bar into a small glass bowl filled with a small amount of the dressing, mix with finger and apply as Josh showed above works perfectly, and very easy... I stored the left over in a small AS sample bottle for future use, should be about 20 years before I need to do it again

PS: I said glass bowl for a good reason, some idiot I know well used the wife's Tupperware and left green Cr impregnated into the plastic!!!!!

Thanks gssixgun for the confirmation. What's the best way to deal with CO that streaked on the strop? Will it liquify on the strop with application of water or oil?