Thread: Nichiri Pelican Shell

Originally Posted by RoyalCake

Gents-

I just got this (what was advertised as NOS) strop and overall very satisfied. The feel of the shell feels great, with no signs of nicks or use otherwise. There are what looks to be maybe water stains? The cotton? side is clean on one side and fairly dirty on the side against the leather.
Opinions on cleaning her up? Woolite for the cotton maybe? Just use the leather side without doing anything?
The brass needs a good polish too.

Very nice!

Thats a beautifull Strop,I have two Aberdeen shells (all I ever use) both were NOS when I bought them.
Is just something about the vintage shells that you have to experiance,they IMO are truley great strops.

I would venture a guess that the Nichiri Strop was made by the same man who makes the Kanayama strops.

When I visited him he said he made the Pelican ones too.

Very nice colour to your strop. Enjoy it in good health.



And those Aberdeen strops that pixelfixed posted are beautiful. A little jealous of those.

Originally Posted by ZethLent

I would venture a guess that the Nichiri Strop was made by the same man who makes the Kanayama strops.

When I visited him he said he made the Pelican ones too.

Very nice colour to your strop. Enjoy it in good health.



And those Aberdeen strops that pixelfixed posted are beautiful. A little jealous of those.

Thanks for that bit of info. I vaguely remember someone saying that same thing when I was researching this one. I will enjoy it!

Shane I think Seth is correct about your strop. Here are a few of the Kanoyama logo's
and many of these are still in use:

Kanayama Strop Variations | Eastern Smooth

: )

Recently saw Llama Brand trademark on a Vintage USA strop however....curious.

Love that strop ..

Very nice find! Congrats

Originally Posted by AntiqueHoosier

Recently saw Llama Brand trademark on a Vintage USA strop however....curious.

Not unusual, many made and exported.
Here is a link to Martin's store he is a seller of the Llama strops and one even older variation of Kanoyamas. I believe
Takeshi Aoki gets some of the other trademarks at times as well.

http://www.rasurpur.de/english/shop/shop.html

Originally Posted by AntiqueHoosier

Recently saw Llama Brand trademark on a Vintage USA strop however....curious.

Was it a Llama Brand or was it made from Llama? I had one of those.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Thats a beautifull Strop,I have two Aberdeen shells (all I ever use) both were NOS when I bought them.
Is just something about the vintage shells that you have to experiance,they IMO are truley great strops.

Very nice! I wiped my down and have only given a couple rubs but the color is evening out well and it's looking just fine. If the kids wouldn't end up using it as a jump rope I'd keep it out just to look at it