Thread: 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.

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.

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.

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.

Do you want regular horsehide, or are you looking for cordovan?

They are different. Cordovan will be much harder to find.

Michael