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    Most strops, made of quality leather require nothing more than an occasional rub with the palm of your unwashed hand. I say "Unwashed" because you want the natural oils from your hand. Some guys like to use strop dressings, neetsfoot oil, Ballistol, etc.
    It's up to you, but it is not necessary. If you choose to do so, use very little, it's easy to go overboard. I've never done it myself to any of my strops, Maybe some of the other's will chime in....
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    Quote Originally Posted by zib View Post
    Most strops, made of quality leather require nothing more than an occasional rub with the palm of your unwashed hand. I say "Unwashed" because you want the natural oils from your hand.
    Just make sure that your unwashed hand doesn't have any grease , dirt , or anything else on it that would damage your strop .
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    Put one pea sized drop of the Fromm strop dressing in your hand. Rub it around in your palm/fingers and then apply it to the back side of the leather strop. This will tell you just how dry the leather is and give you an idea how much to use on the front of the strop. Be very conservative in use and allow at least one day between applications. The dressing does soak in and spread.

    Please understand that I am not saying to saturate the leather. I will speculate that 2 pea sized drops would be enough for the front side of the strop. I use neatsfoot oil on my strops and use considerably more than that when I first apply the oil. Some leathers are really dry.

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    I use Fromm dressing. Just put a bit on your fingers, and rub it into the strop. Not too much -- it's easier to add more, than to take it off.

    I'd ignore the reverse side.

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    Since it is a German strop, I would suggest lederhosen.

    On the rare occasion I oil a strop I always do it from the back of the strop. The leather will wick the oil into the core. Any residue oil left on my hand after oiling the back of the strop I may run my hand down the front of the strop a couple times but the residual oil is very, very light.
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    I use thousand island, no wait thats salad. Seriously mine seems to get a bit dry, could be the hydronic heat in the winter, so I use just some neats foot oil on my fingers and rub it into the strop when it is getting dry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jtepper View Post
    Hey guys,

    Question, how would i go about dressing my strop, i have a German Dovo Feinstes Kern-Juchten strop, and i bought Fromm strop dressing, i looked at the wiki article here on the forum, and it confused me because i don't have a dry strop dressing. What are your suggestions? Thank you very much.

    -Josh
    I just posted in the Strop forum on Fromm Strop Conditioner. FWIW, Phil from the Classic Edge recommends a treatment of Fromm SC for new Illinois #827 strops. I used it about two days per instructions. It's like a cream, use a soft cloth and use circular motions to rub it in thoroughly.

    Here it's extremely dry right now with the -10 temps, so palm rubbing just wasn't cutting it with my other two strops, they were very dry and almost felt brittle. I put some Fromm on my other two strops, and the strops literally drank it up. Two applications later, the strops are nice and supple again and are giving some draw.

    The Illinois #827 strop needs to be treated according to Classic Edge, so for me that was a given. Other two strops, have never used conditioner before, and it seemed to do wonders for the other two....YMMV!

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