Thread: Restore the reverse side

Hi,
My friend gave me a non-working vintage russian-shell strop for experiments. On the front side, he has several deep cuts. It is difficult to restore the face, only if you remove a very thick layer of skin.




Therefore, for the sake of experiment, I decided to restore for use the reverse side of the strop. And it turned out, the strop works again!
First I took off the loose outer skin layer. To do this, I used sandpaper 400 and 600. Then I switched to an abrasive sponge by 3M, 800/1000 and 1200/1500, with water. This is a very convenient tool, because he knows how to keep water in himself during work.



I read somewhere about the old technique: rub the strop with shaving foam with lanolin. The polished strop was covered twice with foam and then the hand rubbed into the skin. Indeed, the strop became smoother and slippery.


I liked how he works. Now this strop is in my rotation, along with Kanayama # 80000 and the strop by Joshua Linderman.