Thread: Which Herold strop to apply pastes? (Juchten vs Rindleder)

I have two Herold Solingen loom strops, one is Juchten (Russian?) and the other is Rindleder (Cowhide?) and I want to apply pastes to one of them. They both have nearly identical textures, with the Juchten being minutely slicker and the Rindleder having a mintely more draw on my finger tips. I have a tub of CrOx (0.5 micron) and a tub of FeOx (0.1 micron), which strop would be better to paste and which one would be better to keep plain/unpasted to use for final stropping?

To be honest it won't really matter, although the pre pasted Herold strops I've seen are cowhide.

Originally Posted by Pedigree

I have two Herold Solingen loom strops, one is Juchten (Russian?) and the other is Rindleder (Cowhide?) and I want to apply pastes to one of them. They both have nearly identical textures, with the Juchten being minutely slicker and the Rindleder having a mintely more draw on my finger tips. I have a tub of CrOx (0.5 micron) and a tub of FeOx (0.1 micron), which strop would be better to paste and which one would be better to keep plain/unpasted to use for final stropping?

As you mentioned already, the vegetable tanned Juchten (bridle) leather strop has a slicker surface than the Rindleder (cow leather) strop. Juchten works very well for stropping, but a stropping paste may not cling as well to it as to the rougher Rindleder strop.

Once it has a stropping paste applied, a strop can no longer be used for non-paste stropping duties and if your stropping paste should not cling well to Juchten you would effectively have ruined the strop.
I would therefore used the Rindleder strop for the paste.

The rougher Rindleder also seems to be close to the kind of leather which Herold is using for their strops as well.


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Originally Posted by beluga

Once it has a stropping paste applied, a strop can no longer be used for non-paste stropping duties and if your stropping paste should not cling well to Juchten you would effectively have ruined the strop.
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I went to amazon and bought a really cheap leather strop for $25.
It wouldn't have been something I would have wanted as my real strop but to coat with CroOx it was perfect and saved me from potentially writing off one of my decent stops.

Originally Posted by STF

I went to amazon and bought a really cheap leather strop for $25.
It wouldn't have been something I would have wanted as my real strop but to coat with CroOx it was perfect and saved me from potentially writing off one of my decent stops.

Maybe I should have expressed myself clearer.

My points were:
1.) Once I apply paste to a strop there is no going back.
2.) If I have a choice between applying paste onto one of two strops that I already own, I will apply the paste to the one where I don’t have to wonder whether the paste will stick or not.



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