Home-made strops

I have been experimenting lately with linen strops. Webbing is hard to get as I wanted to have good quality flax linen. Many years ago a member posted an interview with a retired strop maker on SRP. He was quoted saying that genuine linen really is the best for stops.

This is what I had made. I must confess that I thought of de design, D-ring is brass, was made for me by a local craftsman, our local cobbler did the stitching and the eyelet.

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The wider one is 8 cm wide, the narrower is 6 cm wide. The narrower is my best strop. It really manages to get dull edges keen again. You don't even need a leather strop to finish off the stropping. It is Bruno Mathsson webbing used to refurbish his design chairs. Doesn't come cheap, more than 10 euros a meter. But it is an amazing strop. I am toying with the idea of replacing the original cotton part of my Kanayama strop with some of this webbing. The 8 cm wide webbing I sourced in France directly from the manufacturer. Unfortunately they only do one width in genuine linen.