Good day all,

Finally getting my straights to be sharpened and while waiting for them to return my mind turns toward strops.

I understands what a strop does, both aligning and sharpening, but how often should you strop? With knives and steels you should use it every time and depending on the work maybe several times but that doesn't remove metal just aligning.

Also the FAQs show the work being done on a leather strop but it looks like there are several other materials used. Most of the strops I see seem to have two materials such as leather and some form of cloth. One comes with 4 types.

Thanks,
Jim