Thread: breaking in kanyama linen strop

The member that the thebigspendur spoke of, defined the secondary material as:

"models include a fantastic fabric element, of a very stiff coarse fabric known in Japanese as "Zukku"...it translates as "Fabric/Canvas" but it's unlike any canvas I know. It's coarse, stiff and very good on razors."

I have read somewhere that originally this heavy canvas material's primary use was tension control and was simply there to grasp with the leather so it could prevent the user from stretching the the leather while stropping.

Personally I have never used the kanoyama cloth secondary and I never will. I do use it as a tension control measure.