Thread: Vintage shell strops and couple of horse hide

Here is my collection of four vintage shell strops and two horse hide. I am hoping it can help people that want a vintage one but are not sure what brands are good. these have worked very nice for me.

Sweet!
Love the old strops! Man, a nice Indian Pony! 44/20!
I don't have a Red Imp, but I DO have a 700C Certifyd Russian.
I have 2 or 3 of those Clydesdales. Really nice stuff, that!

Oh! Makes me want to strop!

Thanks for sharing and beating me up on Ebay!

The Red Imp looks unsafe to use on a razor so for safety sake send to me for disposal, I will even pay expedited shipping to get you out of harms way

I bet you WOULD!
Toroblanco, you have some fine ones. If you are close to me, I could come over and rub those for you...The STROPS I mean!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I bet you WOULD!
Toroblanco, you have some fine ones. If you are close to me, I could come over and rub those for you...The STROPS I mean!

sharptonn,

I have a strong attraction to vintage shave goods, like strops and razors, currently have no vintage strops and have been looking for quite awhile, do have lots of vintage straights that are in pretty excellent condition so getting a vintage strop in as good a condition would be sweet.

Originally Posted by Jnatcat

sharptonn,

I have a strong attraction to vintage shave goods, like strops and razors, currently have no vintage strops and have been looking for quite awhile, do have lots of vintage straights that are in pretty excellent condition so getting a vintage strop in as good a condition would be sweet.

Seems you just came up with a nice Japanese one?

Anyway, We DO need to get together and rub some strops. No excuse!

Thanks guys, but I would like to thank you and SRP for the knowlege I have gained in what to look for and what to avoid. There is a wealth of knowlege and outstandingly good people in here.
That Red Imp is my favorite and only use it on my top razors only because I am afraid of nicking it. I use it very carefuly but it made me look for other shell strops and I found two more nice ones. Funny thing is, it was my least expensive at 25$ shipped.

Originally Posted by Toroblanco

Here is my collection of four vintage shell strops and two horse hide. I am hoping it can help people that want a vintage one but are not sure what brands are good. these have worked very nice for me.

Are Shell and horse hide the same? Shell, I think comes from the rump of a horse. Where else on the horse would "horse hide" come from?

Originally Posted by Learner

Are Shell and horse hide the same? Shell, I think comes from the rump of a horse. Where else on the horse would "horse hide" come from?

I suppose from anywhere on the horse's hide a usable area is.
We could look that up here. Just horsehide is a great vintage strop as well, IMO.

Oh! we got it.

I'm with you on that Sharpton, I mainly use the horse hide on my wedges or heavier grinds, I like the heavier draw on them even though it is not much different it does seem to lend itself for those razors. You can easily use what you have but sinse I have the two kinds I do tend to favor that sequence.
Jnatcat, it's funny because the last strop on my list is a Kanayama 70000. Just because I have realy gained so much respect for a man doing it for so long and 150 year history with his family. Others make good strops but for me I would go for a Kanayama.