Originally Posted by
Martin103
Personally used the "Fromm strop conditioner" with good success, on new Illinois strop and vintage horse hide as well. Only a couple of times on the vintage horse butt hide and probably wont use it again on this one since it gotten nice and slick.
On my Illinois strop, probably once a year give or take a few, the strop draw is greater then the horse butt, that said after linen i use both strop in a progression something like 30 laps a piece.
On the linen or cotton, i use Dovo White paste yearly with very good results as well, Dovo claims that there a very mild abrasives in their paste, and many new linen use this paste as well. I remember reading that Chicago Illinois linen strop were impregnated with cerium oxide.
About the progression for me works well, Linen followed with Illinois strop and finished on Horse butt hide, 30-30-30.