Thread: Tony's four sided paddle strop

Joe,
Thay have some nice all white ones that would work. probably about $3 or so. I found a shipping suply company, Uline that has a variety of tubes but again it adds another $3 or so to the price.
Tony

Does Uline have any rectangular tubes?

Originally Posted by Tony Miller

Joe,
Thay have some nice all white ones that would work. probably about $3 or so. I found a shipping suply company, Uline that has a variety of tubes but again it adds another $3 or so to the price.
Tony

Joe,
Just fancy round tubes, nothing square.
Tony

Originally Posted by imported_Tony Miller

Steve,
Glad you liked the strop. There shoulf have been instructions in the box along with it showing proper stropping technique and how to paste the strop.
Your strop had 4 sides, two with rough split leather, one with a natural untreated leather and one a smooth latigo.
Your start with the rough leather and use it for your coarse paste, probably a 1.0 micron. The next surface, 1/4 turn away is the tan natural leather. I suggest the fine paste for it, 0.5 micron. Next surface, another 1/4 turn is a rough leather again and is for preliminary stropping daily in place of linen, next one around is the deep red/brown latigo for final stropping.
It does not matter which of the rough surfaces you use for the paste and which is plain but I like to work around the strop by turning it counterclockwise 1/4 turn for each new surface when it is in my left hand. if you hold it right handed then the pastes should go around it in the opposite direction. The two rough surfaces are different colors so you can keep track of them easier.
As for conditioning the latigo is ready to use as is but eventually you may want to use a strop dressing. I still have Fromm strop dressing but now bottle my own dressing in 2 or 4 ounce sizes.
Just in case you didn;t get instruction send me an e-mail with your address and I will mail another set out.
Thanks,
Tony Miller

Hello Tony I live in the UK where can I get hold of one of these 4 sided strops?

Originally Posted by dudestyle01

Hello Tony I live in the UK where can I get hold of one of these 4 sided strops?

neil miller would make you one if you asked



you can find him in tsr or his website stropshop.co.uk