Thread: old pasted strops

Intereseting. I have an old loom strop I picked up in an antique shop. It has leather stretched on a loom around a block of wood. The leather is black on one side and red on the other. The wood has leather glued to 2 sides, one red and the other natural, so it has 4 sides, 2 on the wood and 2 stretched. The leather is in good shape, but a little dry and the paste is missing in places.

Can I treat the leather with neats foot oil to get it back in shape? Then can I put some green and red paste on it to bring back an edge?

Thanks,

Dave

If you put neatsfoot oil on a pasted strop you might just have a mess. If you sure what paste it is just put some more on unless the strop is in really bad shape. if the general shape of the loom and wood is good contact tony about getting some new leather to use if the leather is in bad shape.