Thread: Strops from SRD ?

Hi Guys!
i have bought a few strops from SRD, and i wonder do they need conditioner?, a Premium "Roo" Strop Kangaroo Leather , a Premium III Buffalo Leather Strop, a Red Latigo Strop, and a few Paddle Pads.
a Premium IV English Bridle Strop and The Natural strop dont need conditioner, i could read on the SRD website, but the others i could not find nothing, is there anyone who have experiens about them, which one is better ?

I've gotten a couple of hangers from SRD, and a modular paddle. If they were recommending 'conditioner' I'm sure you would find it on their website. The modular has the usual options for chrom-ox, or diamond spray, but the hangers I just palm rub occasionally. In speaking with Lynn about strops and stropping I don't recall him mentioning conditioner, beyond palm rubbing for the hanging strops.

if it is so, why for English Bridle is wrotten no conditioner then we know it dose not need conditioner but for buffalo, kangaroo and Latio is wrotten nothing thats why i get confused

I wouldn't be putting conditioner on any new strop. Maybe some of the bargain basement ones may need it however no quality strop should.

I have a SRP Horse and it didn't. Just the usual treatment with the palm of your hand.

The only treatment I use is a rub with the palm followed by a rub with a razor. They do break in nicely in a month or two. Lynn has strop cleaning advice on here. I think he says he uses a brush then neets foot oil when it needs to be cleaned

Always beats me why people don't ask the place they bought the strop from...bit odd isn't it, or is it just me?

I mean, you get people asking this sort of thing (and more) about Tony Miller's strops, Big Daddy Strops, Walkin Horse strops, SRD strops, etc, etc, etc when all these places have contact info and they should know better than others about the materials they use...

Regards,
Neil

"Always beats me why people don't ask the place they bought the strop from...bit odd isn't it, or is it just me."

I think that the answer is that our experiences from buying in large stores(Walmart, Target, etc) has taught us that the sales people generally have no idea of the characteristics of the items that they are selling to you. We then just naturally assume that of all vendors. We'd rather trust fellow consumers, sad.

The OP is in a different time zone than SRD, and I get the impression English may not be his first language. I guess he may have figured it would be quicker to benefit from member's experiences than to wait for an answer to an email to the vendor. Just speculating.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

The OP is in a different time zone than SRD, and I get the impression English may not be his first language. I guess he may have figured it would be quicker to benefit from member's experiences than to wait for an answer to an email to the vendor. Just speculating.

Agreed and well said

Originally Posted by cubancigar2000

Agreed and well said

How so?

Emails are not time zone dependent. Nor is posting on this (US) site given that the OP is in Sweden.... So this is not pertinent in the least.

English may not be his first language - but he is using it here. Again, not pertinent.

The only thing that pertains to this is that he may have thought it would be quicker. That makes the reply a third well said and only one third agreeable with.

As far as other replies are concerned, most re-sellers of mass produced articles are pretty clueless about what they are selling, I do agree. But strop making is hardly a mass-market exercise and most makers are also sellers. With SRD we have guys that have extensive knowledge and use the products they sell, so lets not cast them in with others, they are special.

As far as getting answers from third parties, you can only depend on those answers that come from users of the actual product being talked about, as leathers from different tanneries across the states have different qualities, for instance an english bridle from one tannery can he heavy and oily, from another waxy and hard, from another just right. Only the person who buys in the leather knows for sure - that beats any guess from a third party.

None of this is rocket science. Ask yourself this, if you were to buy a new car and had any queries, wouldn't it be sensible to adress those queries before buying the car, and get the advice of at least the dealership if not the manufacturer before asking Joe Bloggs, who might not even have that make of car? If your answer is 'no' then I despair for you...

Which leads on to another oft-quoted intro to a supposedly well-intentioned response to an OPs query that appears very often on this site - "I don't have that (strop/razor/paste/hone), but....". Sheesh. Nothing to say, but a lot of words used saying it.

If you can't see the sense in asking the vendor, then reading this is hardly going to to add any common sense to your way of thinking.

Regards,
Neil