Thread: B&B leather strop

Just a few questions about my strops. I have a jemico and a b&b leather strop, the jemico is a leather/canvas strop which i love considerably more than the b&b which is leather, and i think suede on the other side. one side is soft almost fuzzy leather?? Anyways, i'm curious which strop or side of my strops to use as a pasted strop. I read a very interesting post about using slurry from a chinese 12k as a strop paste and many say its worked very well for them so i was going to try that since it'd be free. But after reading wiki and doing research i cant decide between the fuzzy leather side (i think suede) or the canvas?? or would it be best to play it safe and paste the regular leather side of the b&b strop? which surfaces respond best to pastes or in my case slurry?

If it is a Barber & Beauty strop you have, i would use that one for paste(its not much use without)
By the way it does belong on the do not buy list for a reason(even if it is not listed by name yet)

thats sorta why i ordered it, i already had a nice german made strop, and i wanted a spare for messing around with pastes and such, plus i figured i'd mess it up my first time. I guess my real question is, what works best, pasting the leather or the canvas? which is more abrasive and would cut faster?

Hmm slurry would probably be a powder type paste
What kind of canvas do you have?
If you have the sky/loose felt combo it cant be used

I think i would use a cotton or linen veave for this type of paste

Is the leather of your B&B smooth feeling?
I think Dovo paste is good on leather(crayon type with red and black in the package)

ya the b&b strop is fairly smooth, but definately not as good as my other strop. The canvas side to my nice strop is the linen kind that i think most people use for pastes, but i was thinking the leather would work better?

Different strops for different abrasives
hard felt for hard cutters like diamond, canvas for medium cutters like chromium oxide, leather for soft cutters like dovo paste.

I just assumed that C12k slurry fit in the medium range, but it might well be fitting just as well in soft category