Thread: First linnen + Crox strop

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

When you say "linen side," are you sure you mean linen or cloth. Lots of what people call linen is not flax. The term "linen" is sometimes used too loosely. If it is flax linen it will cut enough on its own and I personally would save it for use by itself and put the paste on cotton or nylon canvas.

By the way, you can tell if a canvas type material is flax linen or cotton because linen will get stiff when wet, cotton will not.

I use the term linen very loosely here. I define linen as the medium used that's not leather. It could be cotton, canvas or flax linen. Mine are typically canvas and sometimes cotton. But I typically get great results with whatever linen strop and leather strop (Lucky strike horse hide) that I use. I'm very blessed that I paid attention to what Outback has taught me over the years when it comes to stropping as honing!

I use pasted strop before my regular stropping for blades that are starting to lose their keenness. Well actually some of the time it is s after my regular stropping routine and part of the way into the shave. It's surprising how much it will improve an edge in the middle of a shave.

I find that on the odd occasion i finish on a Naniwa 12k, a round on the Crox seems to smooth the edge a bit.

Cool little strop ya got there, should service you quite well. Cheers.
-Laramie-

Balsa in 2 1/2 width, 2 ft long for me. Lightly sanded up and down with 100 a bit. Rub the good powdered stuff in with a finger. Spread it around.
Takes your fingerprints off. Handy!
Lightly wipe off with a towel. Get's better as you go.
CroOx is a good thing. Too much of a good thing is bad.