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    Quote Originally Posted by timberrr59 View Post
    Today I watched my barber sand out a cut on his strop with one of those abrasive brick-like rust remover/polishers sold at gun shows. There are several makes of them. Knife people also use them to clean up old rusty blades. It did a good job on the strop. It was comforting to see that even experienced strop users make a slip from time to time. At least I now know how to take care of such misfortunes. He had used it on some of his razors to remove rust and stains. I would be careful using it on an etched blade, although it is claimed not to scratch the metal. I dunno.

    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.


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    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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    awsome info thanks!

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    a pumice stone works as well...
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    how bout using 180 grit? or is that too low?

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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zib View Post
    a pumice stone works as well...
    +1 ... As do diamond plates. I feel very uncomfortable with the idea of sandpapers leaving grit behind even after supposed cleaning.
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    Ill have to give this a try on my first strop that is all nicked up. Thanks.

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    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!!

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