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Scratches left from strop
I have a brand new black latigo strop leaving scratches on my bevels. Strop came from SRD. Looks really clean, went over it with a loupe couldn’t see any contaminants. I’ve only ever rubbed it with my palm and cleaned it once with some lather to try and get some of the dye and wax off as it leaves enough residue on a blade I feel the need to wipe it off. The picture is after 20 laps, the keys are there to give perspective
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I’m not blaming SRD, and don’t think the residue has anything to do with it. I have another latigo from them in brown and it performs fine, actually the reason I bought the black one. The only other thing that the blade contacts besides the leather is my face and I can’t imagine I started growing steel whiskers.
Through a search of the site the first thing I’m thinking about trying is rubbing the strop down with pure glycerin to try and give it a gentle cleaning before moving to more drastic measures if it doesn’t work. I’m hoping some of you strop gurus can chime in with some ideas.