Sanders83, I'll offer an unconventional alternative to the excellent advice given here. Go to a thrift shop, buy about 5 of the rattiest looking leather belts that you can find. Make sure they are cheap. Then go to your kitchen and pick up the sharpest knife you have, or borrow a razor sharp knife. Now go outside in a safe area and securely lash the belts to a low horizontal branch of a tree. Finally start yelling as loud as you can: Mind the Spine, Mind the Spine....simultaneously hacking the hanging belts with your knife...shredding them. By the time this exercise is over I predict, when you return to razor and strop, you will be stropping with verve and style.