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08-17-2014, 12:49 AM #1Senior Member
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Buying stropping material without buying the entire strop.
Does anyone sell strop materials (linen, felt, etc.) that can be used in strops that come apart so the material can be replaced? The ends of my strop are attached using screws. I'd like to try linen or others to compare with the poly-webbing that's on the strop now. What I have now (leather/poly-webbing) seems to be good except for personal preference. I would like to see what I like best and save some money by not buying complete strops.
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08-17-2014, 12:52 AM #2Senior Member
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Don't really know, sorry, but the answers will eventually come.
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08-17-2014, 12:57 AM #3Senior Member
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What type of strop do you have? What size? Two screws or three?
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08-17-2014, 01:01 AM #4Senior Member
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Rich man's strop from whippeddog.com. It is 3" wide and is held together with 3 screws at each end.
Originally Posted by aa1192
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08-17-2014, 01:31 AM #5Senior Member
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I would suggest SRP replacements then. They are under ten bucks three inches wide and have a decent chance of fitting.
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08-17-2014, 02:20 AM #6Senior Member
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Thank you. Originally Posted by aa1192
Just looked. Is the SRD premium fabric referred to as linen or is it something else?
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08-17-2014, 02:48 AM #7Senior Member
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Yes, the premium is linen I believe. I bought both that and the webbing a few months back. They are both nice and work great with pastes. They are so cheap you can buy a few and get crazy with it. I made a strop of just webbing and linen with scraps from Tandy.
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08-17-2014, 10:08 AM #8Senior Member
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SRD, star shaving and even Neil or Tony Miller do replacement felts, linens etc
That you know are of quality and easier to get hold offSaved,
to shave another day.
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08-17-2014, 06:52 PM #9Senior Member
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Does linen or felt provide any abrashion without something applied to it?
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08-17-2014, 07:48 PM #10Senior Member
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I can't comment regarding felt, but the flax linen strop that I love is much rougher than your typical cotton linen, and I'd say that it's fairly abrasive (for a fabric). But remember that almost ANYTHING delivers some degree of abrasion; some folks even talk of using newsprint as a strop. Originally Posted by Jack0458
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