Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
You can't go wrong because you still have the fabric from your two Illinois strops. Whichever you choose from SRD, if you don't like it as much as the second components on your older strops, you can just fall back on the old favorite. IMHO ..........
Well, this gave me quite the Aha! moment... The linen on both of my old strops was still in great shape. Then I remembered that, in my tool box, I had a strop made of cordovan shell that I picked up for $10 at an antique mall. It had no hardware of any kind, just a metal grommet to hang from, so it's basically just been used to touch up razors when I hone them, and for chisels and plane irons. Voila! Put together with the old linen and Illinois hardware, and Frankenstrop is born.

Good thing I was in analysis-paralysis for a while before pulling the trigger on a strop that cost more than almost any three of my razors put together!

Thanks, everyone.