Hello All,

Question:
How should I store my expensive strop long term?

Long winded story:
When I bought my first straight razor I bought the razor and strop set from SRD. I didn't want to ruin this strop so I put my SRD strop in the closet. It was still in the plastic it shipped with.

I still needed a strop so I bought a Whipped Dog Poor Man's Strop. It only took a few weeks but I ruined that strop pretty quickly.

Once I ruined that I bought a Filly Strop. This took me a month or 2 to destroy. Actually it's not that bad and the pasted side is untouched.

I pulled the original SRD strop out and started using it. This is after 3 months in the original plastic. It seems fine and mty stropping seems good enough that I might only destroy this one after years of use.

That said recently I bought another SRD strop. Since I am using the original (lower cost) SRD strop. I have decided to keep the new strop in the closet in it's original shipping plastic until I feel comfortable using it.

Long post short:
Is it okay to store the strop the way it was shipped or should I take other precautions?

Thank you,
--Shoki