Hi,

I just bought a new strop from ebay, Shark Designs Field Strop, and it is very well made with a lovely fuzzy surface, but when i pull it tight it sags slightly on one side. This means that I can't maintain even contact between blade and strop and end up with just an edge of the strop running along the blade mid stroke and killing my finely honed razor edge.

I emailed the guy about this and said that I should soak it and rub it at 90 degrees over the edge of a table to stretch it out then dry it laying flat.

I wanted to run this past the pros out there before I try this out and ruin a potentially good strop.

IO added some pics so you can see what I am on about, No matter how hard I pull it doesn't even up the sides, this is a thick piece of leather, about 3.5mm

Thanks people.