I decided to replace the black latigo leather from my original strop with a replacement leather that fit right into the old D rings.

The interesting part, to me, is that I bought a replacement leather from SRD and the original leather was from a different online shop. Just from the very first strokes on this new leather I felt a big difference, I could feel the blade's contact on the leather much more clearly (if that makes sense).

Also, my original strop was black latigo and I decided to switch things up a bit and go with red. I'm assuming SRD just sells better quality leather but I am wondering if maybe there is a difference between red and black latigo of which I am unaware. Any thoughts?


On a side note, the red leather enclosed in the original black leather 'fasteners' looks amazing!