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Horse Hide strop
Hey all well it been about half a year since I started with a straight razor and loved it. One thing though is I seen a lot of strops around but not much Horsehide/Cordovan. What even worse is being in Canada it is even harder to locate a strop. Does anyone know where to purchase one or even just a location to obtain horsehide so I can make my own.
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SRD sells their own line of horsehide strops. The Superior Shave sells the Walking Horse line of horsehide strops. Both are made from Horween horsehide.
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I'm in Calgary. I certainly can direct you to non horsehide sources in Canada but I haven't seen one that sells horsehide. Here is one in the U.S. however: The Imperial Shave Shaving Razor Quality. I have not bought from them though.
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There may be some strops that are made of horween shell, but I don't think there are any that are $95. It costs about $175 to get a single #2 shell from horween. That may make two shorter strops or one medium length. Figure any strop under the cost of a single shell is probably horse butt.
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Do you want regular horsehide, or are you looking for cordovan?
They are different. Cordovan will be much harder to find.
Michael