Clean my strop?

[seanreum1]

I have a cheaper strop but the leather seems ok, but it has a lot of oil of some kind on it so the draw is really Intense. Anyway to clean it off and start over?

[eddy79]

Use a flannel or clean cloth lightly dampened and rub over vigorously. Palm rub afterwards. If that isn't enough you would need to use the lather treatment. Pretty sure there is something in the library describing the lather procedure. If not a search should bring it up easily enough.

[thebigspendur]

Are we talking a used strop or a new one? If it's used and it's been saturated with oil you'll never get it all out. You can try to absorb it but it will keep coming up. Depending on how bad it is you may eventually dry it out. If it's new and has been overtreated with something that may dissipate by itself. Otherwise some good leather cleaner like Bick should do the job.

[apipeguy]

I have a Latigo that had a lot of oil and cleaned it with a damp cloth, had to do that numerous times every week or two. I then cleaned it with saddle soap almost a month ago and it has been great ever since and the draw is much lighter.

[Euclid440]

Yea, depend on how much oil and why it’s on there.

I have had good luck with paper towels and some weight.

The Natural un bleached towels work best, lay the strop flat and lay the towels on the strop with a couple bricks on the towels. If you put it in the sun it will draw the oil to the surface quicker.

YMMV for a lot of reasons.

[StoneSeeker]

rubbing the side of a glass bottle on the strop can lessen the draw a bit. to leach some oils out of the leather you can rub a clean cloth on the strop (lay it on a table) until the cloth is oily then find a clean side of the cloth and repeat to retrieve more oil if necessary.