Thread: Kanayama/Kanoyama Strop Edited

Does anyone out there own or have any experience with the #2196 strop?

According to Fendrihan's It's supposed to have the same type of leather and finish, but be the thinnest one he makes.

Pete <:-}

I have owned a Kanayama 80 and down to a 30 and several in the middle and have used the leather, suede and linen. I personally feel the suede does very little for an edge other then assist in drying the bevel on the post shave, the leather on the 80 seemed a tad to thick.

At first when I started out using Kanayama strops I hated the linen and did pretty much anything to keep from using it but now as several years have passed and my edges have gotten so much better I just have an older Kanayama 30 with linen and no suede, the linen at first was so course but I continued to used it and as the many months have passed it has softened quite a lot and does what I need it to do but then again I also don’t over think stropping anymore, I do 25/25 on linen/leather for preshave and 10/10 on the post shave and that’s all I ever do for stropping regardless of strop used on razor used, I used to really obsess on stropping doing countless reps but figured if I had to do that much stropping I did something wrong during my honing process but that’s me.