Thread: Leather surface on the strop

Please , can anyone of the knowing members explaine me whats wrong with me .
Everyone on the net are watching for the slick strops , but for me they dont work pretty accurate .
I make my self strops and paddles from naturally taned cowhide and from other lesthers , but after hours of break in and experimenting i certantly sand the surface of my strops to very fine naped . It gets such effect like the DOVO naped russian leather . When i slide a finger on it , leaves a a mark that is caused by the change of direction of the fine fibres in the leather surface . Every each of my strops eventualy looks the same way after all.
I like the heavy draws , latigo and if the leather is too slick i rubb the hech out of it with the spine of the razor , botle , pipe tobacco box . some of my hones or just sand it to naped condition with 400 to 800 grit sandpaper . I practice this torture since i like the draw of the strop . I mainly use liquid parafinum to rubb it in the new ,clean ,vegetable taned strop so it gets something like naped latigo . I sand the backside of the leather so finely , and use it before the outside of the leather . Just love the inside of the leather ,it works so well instead of lineen , or im just imagine this in my sick brain.
Whats wrong with me , is i am a sick guy and i am diluting my self , that my strops work better and faster like that on the heavy side of the draw . They get noisy also .