Thread: SRD Premium Fabric/Felt

Hi folks,

When I bought my strop from SRD, I went with the webbing, but I see that for a couple bucks, I can get a replacement for the fabric side. I suppose this is also useful if using different pastes, which I may also try. I'm wondering if I should go with the fabric or the felt? I don't see many people talking about felt, so I'm inclined to go with the fabric. Just looking for some feedback before I buy.

Thanks!

Felt get used a lot on pasted bench strops. It is on some hanging strops too. I use it on my daily driver and it seems to be just fine.

have used Felt for 2 years no problem at all
the more it is used the smoother is gets

I have both the linen and felt. I prefer the linen for daily use and would use the felt for pasting.

Been using felt on hanging strop for about 4 years on my daily shavers, no complaints and seems to leave a nice smooth shaving edge.

I used to use Chromium Oxide pasted and Ferrous Oxide pasted felt to finish an edge after honing. Later I tried the same pastes (Crox & Ferrous) on leather, which I currently use, and feel the edges are a little smoother.

I switched to the premium fabric, from the webbing, on my SRD strop several months ago and really like it for my daily use. Have felt on a paddle strop for sprays.

Never considered the felt for the hanging strop and daily use, might be interesting to try.

I have an SRD webbing and felt combo strop I use for pastes (0.5 micron diamond on felt, 0.25 micron Crox on webbing) and it does an amazing job of maintaining edges between honings. The SRD strops are an incredible value.