Thread: Leather for DIY strop....

Hi all,

As usual I am here to pick brains....

I made a strop from some leather that looks identical to this:

http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/P.../4578-00-M.JPG

Now my question is, the leather i have has a very fine sorta suede texture to it on one side, and a very rough texture on the other. Most of the strops I have seen have a shiny finish to the leather.

Is this different leather to the stuff I have or has it been treated in some way?


Hope you can help me.

Cheers

David

Sounds like it has been nubuck-ed to me from your description. I believe this is similar to the finish Handamerican are now putting on their strops but they make it sound all scientific. Thousands of tiny fingers massage an edge onto your strop or something like that . Anyway, it is just raising a slight nap on the surface of the leather.

It should work ok. Many members pumice their strops, as i have with one surface of mine, i think that will be a similar finish to what your looking at. It might help if you also linked to the leather description.