Thread: Strop resurfacing

I have a quick question guys, in curious if you can leave a leather strop natural after sanding the original surface down. I just finished resurfacing an old horse hide strop for my brother in law and it is as smooth as anything. Good smooth drag and feel, I did a few test strops.

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I have a quick question guys, in curious if you can leave a leather strop natural after sanding the original surface down. I just finished resurfacing an old horse hide strop for my brother in law and it is as smooth as anything. Good smooth drag and feel, I did a few test strops.

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This is it finished with a canola oil, cotton seed oil, bees wax, cocoa butter and vitamin E moisturizer stick


-mods, my apologies for the double posting, my phone app sent it twice

I merged the two for you

Honestly I have found that after a "Re-surface" on a strop I have had the best success in getting the draw I like from the Good Ole' Lather teatment using that twice seems to give the strop excatly what I am looking for

I tried the lather trick first and I just decided to hell with it I was gunna go all the way with the resurfacing, and honestly I am happy with the end result! I have never done this sort of work before either. I am seriously contemplating doing this to my red imp strop

That looks really good! I am still playing with my strop too. (I just did a post on it the other day) What did you use as a final finish on it?

Just a suggestion.If you have them,use your DMT plates for the sanding,they work great and leave no chance of possible imbedded sandpaper grit in the leather.

In the last pick there I used the rocky mountain dry skin butter. Unfortunately my red Imp strop did not turn out as well, but I think with some time it will be just fine. It's as smooth as anything just not quite shiny yet... Different leather

Unfortunately I do not have any dmt's but I will keep this in mind, thanks pixel

When you refinished, what was the finest grit you worked the leather with before oiling it up?

200-400- then 1500. A bit of a stretch but it's all I had. And it was just on used micromesh pad, the 1500