I'd be careful with what type of those sponge like sanding pads you use as some are impregnated with aluminum oxide and you might end up turning your strop into a pasted strop.
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Gentlemen,
someone mentioned an old barbers trick of scraping the strop with a pair of scissors, I did it to my old Keen Edge strop, on the fine side, it sure works and increases the draw nicely, I later shaved with an old Cadman razor and got a really nice shave. I may just the strop a light touch with some fine sand paper, and a quick rub with some RM Williams saddle dressing.
Cheers
Gordon
When I use my strop for very first time, I made many nicks on the strop. I use sandpaper to remove nicks and as a side-effect got very smooth and nice surface. Only difference is that I used 1000 grit sandpaper.
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Z
awsome info thanks!
a pumice stone works as well...
how bout using 180 grit? or is that too low?
I wouldn't go lower than 1000 grit IMO.
Yesterday I used 1200 and 2000 and a pumice stone to get out a couple of nicks.
Looks like brandnew again.
Ill have to give this a try on my first strop that is all nicked up. Thanks.
I have in the recent past gone from 320 to 400 to 600 to 1000 grits and got what I consider very good results.
YMMV, if you think you might need to, give it a try, use a light hand, and clean any and ALL grit from papers off the surface before useing.
Thanks for reading, 'have a good one fellow face scrapers!!