Thread: Handamerican Leather Choices

Ken,
In all honesty, this won't make a tremendeous difference. A good piece of latigo leather will work well on any grind. Which is not to say that I wouldn't like to have a better variety of strops along my wall With that being said, if you have a greater variety of delicate grinds, it may not be a bad idea to go smooth and vice versa. If you've already made your purchase from HA or TM, enjoy it as you got a quality item that WILL do the job.

Thanks for that. The only reason I got involved with this thread is because I just received a new TM #1 best 3" latigo strop in a private trade. Before this I was using a TM #2 grade 2 1/2" latigo. I was amazed by how differently they performed. The #1 best strop had a #5 draw compared to a #3 draw for the #2 1/2" strop. Man, the razor almost stuck to the strop. The difference was like night and day. So now I have a similar set up as Joe described, a high draw strop and a lighter draw one. Only mine is on two separate strops. So you can see why I was interested in understanding when it would be better to use one or the other.

for razors the best is the double latigo, one side smooth the other diamond/Russian cut

Recommendation from Keith.

I have an order for two 3"x24" peices of 1/8" red latigo comming along with the hardware (handel and hook part) to make a strop. I'll let everyone know how it works out. Keith was very helpfull.

Eddie

I got keith's recommendation, and a very nice strop it is too. My razors finally pass the HHT!