Thread: What should I do with the back of my leather strop?

I think I read that some guys paste the back of their strop. Me, I just leave it alone. It's just the back of the strop.

Originally Posted by honedright

I think I read that some guys paste the back of their strop. Me, I just leave it alone. It's just the back of the strop.

I guess if I can put it to use I will.

Jim

I can give some feedback having just used Dovo red paste on the back of the leather side of my strop, and I would not recommend it.

I had been refreshing my razor with the Dovo black paste on a fabric side of my strop quite successfully until it just wasn't feeling sharp enough to get a really good shave, so as I also could find anything conclusive about applying paste to the back of the leather side I gave it ago.

The result was not good, I could still shave but it seemed worse than before I used the red paste, the razor was very jumpy and rather than glide across my face it would jump across in a stuttering motion.

I think this might have something to do with the reverse of the leather side on my strop is not a smooth surface like to front or the fabric side, so in my opinion and after trying for myself I don't think it is suitable for using paste in my humble opinion.

Nothing.

Regards

Chasmo

Has anyone thought of smoothing out the backside and then pasting it? Just a thought.

Originally Posted by dynaman05

Has anyone thought of smoothing out the backside and then pasting it? Just a thought.

All witty remarks aside.....

I have an old strop that I paste the reverse side of the leather with crox, great for a quick touch up occasionally.

The backside is the unfinished side,do nothing with it.

Originally Posted by davesmith

I can give some feedback having just used Dovo red paste on the back of the leather side of my strop, and I would not recommend it.

I had been refreshing my razor with the Dovo black paste on a fabric side of my strop quite successfully until it just wasn't feeling sharp enough to get a really good shave, so as I also could find anything conclusive about applying paste to the back of the leather side I gave it ago.

The result was not good, I could still shave but it seemed worse than before I used the red paste, the razor was very jumpy and rather than glide across my face it would jump across in a stuttering motion.

I think this might have something to do with the reverse of the leather side on my strop is not a smooth surface like to front or the fabric side, so in my opinion and after trying for myself I don't think it is suitable for using paste in my humble opinion.

Possibly your razor as beyond help with any pastes & simply needed honing.

The backside of even high grade strops are not finished Leather,paste it, use it, you will destroy your edge plain and simple.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

The backside of even high grade strops are not finished Leather,paste it, use it, you will destroy your edge plain and simple.

Have you ever seen the scrub leather that comes with the SRD paddle? Would you not recommend using that as well? Curious if the use of that is also questionable. It seems similar to the back of a strop and I always wondered if the roughness of that scrub leather could potentially hurt a good edge.