Thread: Jute as a Back Strop?

Burnishing till polished is the basic way but as mentioned you can take the risky route of washing in warm water and soap to shrink the weave before hand. Setting the weave firm with soap lather dressing is another option as well as the wax dressing method.
I'm sure these methods have been discussed on this forum.
Don't be fooled by the roughness thinking it will dull the edge....it won't.

The jute is still WAY softer than the hardened high carbon steel of your razor. I would break it in as several have stated & use it!

Slawman

I washed it in laundry detergent, then put some hair conditioner on it (turns out, we don't use dedicated softener in our house). It got a lot softer. It will make a great addition to my leather strops, I'm sure.

I'm constrained by the fact that the leather and jute of my strop are sewn together. Will have to take a more hands on approach to conditioning the jute than washing machine [emoji6]

All you folks replacing your Kanoyama cotton strops, contact me if you need to properly dispose of them [emoji23]

You really like the Kanayama cotton strops? IMHO they are mediocre. Mine had one or 2 knots on the front of the strop that I had to push to the other side.

I think I would find some use for them.. pastes, Crox, or just plain.. should work alright.

I've just received a Kanayama 60000 and was very interested to see what they used for the canvas component. On careful side-by-side examination, it is almost indistinguishable from that used on my SRD 3" English bridle leather strop - except for the color. The surface is very even and regular; it sounds and feels just like the SRD in use. I definitely prefer these two canvas strops to the hard linen on my Tony Miller strop, which is too slick and fast for my liking.