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Originally Posted by xman
What type of linen do you use? Is it plain or pasted. The Dovo strops (my favorite) are pasted whereas the linen that comes with Illinois strops have some compound embedded in the cloth that feels almost like plastic. It's a very aggressive strop. With my old favorite Llama brand strop I use a Merit solid silk linen strop that I got NOS from the "Booklady" on ebay. I have applied additional white paste to it. Works wonderfully. This is what I use, but of course, some don't use linen at all, while some use linen all the time. To each is own.
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