Thread: linen strop

My understanding is the linen realigns the edge of the blade as well as warming it up but I would imagine a rough leather would do the same but it would have to have properties similar to the linen so unless you had the reverse side of your strop the proper consistancy you would have to buy another strop so why not just use the linen which usually comes with a leather strop anyway.

I've done both - I've had solely leather strops in the past which have worked fine, and I have a custom made Neil Miller strop which has both leather and linen and thats just "The One" AFAIC. After stropping on that you can just about split atoms with the edge!

IME I get better edges with using both, but I dont think its a must do.