Thread: SRD Fabrics

I have an SRD strop with their nylon webbing but have been curious about the others. Is there anywhere a short description of each of the fabrics? I know this is not rocket science, but I rather like knowing a bit more about a product than simply its name. It's SRD, I know it will be good quality, I just like to know a bit more when I shop.

Thanks

I had a natter with one of the other guys here who won an SRD PI in a giveaway which had the herringbone weave and who also had the P4.

He said both were pretty fast but the cotton had slightly more draw. He didnt notice a difference in the edge between them though.

I too would like to know,as I was thinking on getting the SRD premium fabric replacement for my english bridle strop.

Search for SRD fabrics, and something from ShavedZombie should come up. He's got an addiction to strops, and his threads were pretty good.

I have the webbed and the hard wool felt. I like the felt for spays, and the for after the shave for 10 laps. I think it has a pretty cool feel.

That's my 0.02

I don't have a whole lot of strop variety experience, but I have used the felt, herringbone, and nylon strops. For paste use, the pressed felt is fantastic for that purpose though the others work for it as well. I was concerned that the nylon would not work for pastes because I thought it would all get shifted down into the gaps but that is definitely not the case. The nylon works just fine.

For normal maintenance stropping, the nylon and herringbone work and function just fine. I use the nylon for post-honing stropping and though the zip, zip, zip sound seemed odd at first, it works great. My personal preference for maintenance stropping is the herringbone for one pathetic reason--it's simply more familiar to me. Functionally, I have not noticed any difference in function between the two.

I have three, the linen component on the Premium 1, very nice, The webbed fabric on the english Bridle and the hard wool felt which I use for diamond spray...All are nice. If I had to pick one for everyday, it'd be the linen that comes with the Premium 1....

Rich

There is a lot of personal preference when it comes to the second strop materials.

We introduced the poly-webbing into the strop environment and it is exactly that. A poly webbing. It is a little coarser than the seat belt materials it is sometimes compared to. When tested against cotton, traditional linen's and all the other fabrics out there, we found that it had outstanding results and the material worked very well when used with pastes for honing and refreshing techniques. It does make a different sound when stropping.

We have now also gone with a thicker cotton herringbone weave for the second strops because it too provides great results. It is a little more traditional in the way it feels when stropping. It also works well with pastes and with sprays for the final steps in honing and in touch ups.

The hard pressed wool was first used by Keith DeGrau in his flat bed hones and is a media that really works well to cushion the Diamond sprays. It also works very well with Chromium Oxide spray. I originally ask for this material to be used as a hanging strop and it worked very well there too. We went on to use it as a separate hanging strop or as the second strop. We have found that it works very well in lieu of the poly webbing or cotton/linen second strops, but is primarily used with the sprays. It has proven to work very well in the modular paddles stropping system too.

Hope this helps.

Have fun,

Lynn

I love the sound of nylon and poly strops
Just seems to me that its easyer to hear exacly what your doing(if that make any sense at all)

I am in the market now for a new strop since I have "honed" my skills to the point where I haven't nicked my starter strop in quite a while. I visited the SRD website and the choices have me daunted. Should I just go for the latest and the greatest IV or are the earlier versions just as good? Is it worth it to get the extra long?

Originally Posted by flyman

I am in the market now for a new strop since I have "honed" my skills to the point where I haven't nicked my starter strop in quite a while. I visited the SRD website and the choices have me daunted. Should I just go for the latest and the greatest IV or are the earlier versions just as good? Is it worth it to get the extra long?

I can only speak on my experience with the IV as I have not used any of the others. I am very happy with this strop and will probably not purchase another. With everything straight razor related, I have purchased more than one, always looking for the next best thing. However, with this strop, from the first time I used it, I never had the inclination to even look at another strop.

I honestly don't think you can go wrong with any of them, but I definitely recommend the IV.