Thread: Getting a Strop Handmade What Kind of leather

That will work, interesting design. I like it.

Use lite pressure, keep the spine on the strop at all times and stop before you flip.

Make sure your razor is truly shave ready.

I find horse hide to be my leather of preference but a high quality cowhide will work too. A 3" is a good strop to have but a narrower one will work too, you just have to use an x pattern. I use a large Mastro Livi loom strop & i don't know what he uses for his leather but it works good for me. I rarely use a conventional strop but do have a couple due to the fact I haven no collarbone in my left shoulder which is the side I use to pull it taut. I'm right handed & i found that I was tending to slack up on the conventional strops when stropping. I use very light pressure when stropping. Here is a very useful video done by Lynn which I like very much: