Why would a strop have this option?
Hey guys it is time to put our thinking caps on.
This will sound a little crazy but there is a strop a very trusted friend has told me about that has a unique surface on it that I don't understand. First let me validate myself as saying I have worked with leather for 48 years and understand many of the reasons that leather is finished for certain applications. I was talking to my friend today which is also a master leather worker of over 60 years, We were talking strops and he told me about a strop that was passed to him from his father that was made in Germany Pre WWII and beyond. It has very ornate Sterling silver hardware with a linen back strop the unique thing about it is it has cuts in it at a 90 Deg. angle to the edge that are about 1/64" deep that run across the width of the strop and are a uniform 1/8" apart covering the entire length of the stropping area. For the life of he and myself we can not figure out why - unless the cuts were designed as a loading area for a paste of sorts.
If anyone has any idea please let me know as I am lost. Unfortunately the strop is packed away somewhere on his ranch or I could get a picture of it.
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