Quote Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995 View Post
thats true BK but i used a spare blet when i first started out for the first 3 weeks and i managed to do fine. I would sugesst that you look into a strop soon but in my openion a belt will work out for now as along as its real leather and has a smooth texture.
The problem is that a lot of "real leather" belts below, say, the $50 range are actually made of ground up leather glued into a sheet-- and often times grit from the grinding process is mixed in, even though you can't feel it. Basically, a belt is a very hit-or-miss strop.

I would recommend using newsprint instead, until you can get a real strop.