Thread: Well, finally did it last night

Finally nicked my strop. Took a very small sliver of layer off the top. Man, I was doing so well. And it's such a nice strop! A Tony Miller Latigo 3". Just when I thought I was gettin' the knack for it and everything.

It's still very much usable, but immediately I thought "Well, looks like I'll have to get a razor/strop combo at SRD instead of just a razor!".

Sorry to hear that! It looks like you've been at it for a while too, proof it can happen to anyone, even the experienced.

Is it possible that you can repair it? If it's just a "sliver", maybe you can sand it a tiny bit to even it out....???

Sad to hear it!
It's always a bummer when that happens to a fine product like that.

Any chance of sanding it down and treating it with a little Neatsfoot-oil, to make it less visible?

I've done that with a couple small slivers I've made in my finer strops, and now they are hardly visible, and does not present a problem with stropping over there at all.
Good luck!

Don't sweat it . It will give your strop "character" .

I have a "Big Daddy" strop that has a small nick on the upper 1/3 of it and I have used neatsfoot oil and seems to make stropping more effective....better. Anybody else found this to be true? I also notice that the little nick is kind of useful. I can hear the razor slightly making a tone, like a "ping" when the stropping has advanced to a point that is is optimally sharp/stropped. On 1/2 hollow or other razors it just gives a kind of "pfffit" sound but on a few of the razors, extra hollow, especially the GOTTA "Super Fine" it make the razor give a very audible "ping" when it comes down it.

well as long as you learned from it than it was not all bad,


best of luck,
Deerhunter