Quote Originally Posted by PhlyanPan View Post
I didn't get the strop wet. The flakes from the strop that landed on the countertop got wet and they leeched the color into the countertop. At first I thought it was chromium oxide but I cleaned it and have the chromium oxide kept in the basement shop so I couldn't come up with a way for that to have gotten on the countertop. It's definitely from the strop. The SWMBO had decreed that the strop has to be kept somewhere else because it randomly drops little flakes from stropping onto the counter and stains it.

Edit: And yes, it was star shaving, not five star shaving. My bad.
Have you contacted the vendor? Even if it's the dye the strop shouldn't be dropping flakes.
I have an SRD premium II strop, a whippeddog poor man's strop and the latigo from star shaving.
They all feel different bit the strop from star shaving feels different & kind of plasticky. I'm not sure if it's the latigo or not as it is the only latigo I own. It kind of feels like bonded leather. If it is bonded then that would explain the flaking.