Thread: Kanayama - has the quality changed?

Originally Posted by prodigy

Yup, was aost a year before I had the heart to use my kanyama 90000, and even now I only use it for my top razors on special occasions.

I've got a few other strops I never use. My old SRP premium 1, and Tony Miller horse are all scuffed and nicked up, work great, and why do that to my 'special' strops ? I have stropped with the 80,000 a few times, but with special attention and care.

The Kanoyama strops of today are just as good as they were many, many years ago. Druid made reference to Jim Rion. Jim's wife was a relative of Naomi San and they were the primary brokers for the strops but the selling came to an end when pricing became and issue. There are several sellers of Kanoyama's strops today.

Here are just a few of the many stamps you see on very old to current day strops. Many of the stamps are and/or were available in color.