Thread: Kanayama 50 Strop

Originally Posted by Jnatcat

I have had several Kanayama strops over the past few years chasing a certain leather draw and this one feels pretty perfect, the draw is very creamy is the best description I can give, the cotton back piece I have never honestly cared for but I may try this one but on past ones it’s be super rough and it tends to degrade a JNAT
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When I got mine a few years back, there was instructions as to how to beat the cloth component into submission.""canvas-strop

The company name is Kanoyama, but it is stamped Kanayama. They made the wrong spell stamp and used it, and the company had been known as Kanayama, so they could not correct it anymore.

******PLEASE DO NOT USE THE CANVAS STROP WITHOUT ANY TREAT TO BE SOFTER******

The new canvas strop is very tough and hard cloth, so it might get damage to your razor blade. If you do not have time to do below processes, please take off the canvas strop from leather strop, and wash it in washing machine with softner at least several times like new jeans. The new canvas strop will be softer and it is forgiven the lapping of razor blade.

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=====How To Make Softer Canvas Strop=====

It is kind of hard work, but if you will try to do it, please do like below:

Put on body soap (solid one), and wash it away

Put on the canvas strop on the wood board, and pounding with wooden hammer on the round portion of the wood hammer side to kill the tough fibers.

Washing by brush

Rubbing solid body soap

Washing by brush

Wrapping by Nagura to polish the surface of the canvas strop ( (Bottling with glass to set the surface [G])

Washing by washing machine

Drying at shade a couple days

Putting on body soap by brush

Wrapping by beer bottle strongly

Please do the all above processes three times

FWW
~Richard
PS, Good treatment for old strops that look like hell....

The problem I have read with washing it is it will shrink about 3/4" in length so I may choose to soften it by see-sawing it over the edge of my Atoma plate just to break the fibers down some.

All of the older ones I have/have had with that hue of fabric were nice. Nothing like the harsh newer ones.
Give it a try!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

All of the older ones I have/have had with that hue of fabric were nice. Nothing like the harsh newer ones.
Give it a try!

I certainly will Sir and thanks for suggesting that, no sense in beating it up or washing it if I don't have to, I gave it a good palm rub this a.m before heading out to work and even did a quick 50 laps and it's really a different draw compared to the newer ones I have had in the past, its a very even creamy consistent draw.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

All of the older ones I have/have had with that hue of fabric were nice. Nothing like the harsh newer ones.
Give it a try!

Gave it a quick 50 laps on the cotton and am glad I did now t wash or beat down, it’s pretty smooth so going to leave it as is, thanks for the tip to try it as is.

It gets better as you go!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

It gets better as you go!

I don’t use the inside of it, I basically hold both the leather and cotton as one piece and just flip it to the leather side, it’s pretty much the way I use the linen and leather strops.