Originally Posted by
Euclid440
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Pick up a rolling pin from a thrift or dollar store, suspend the pin from the handles and roll the strop on the pin, bending the strop over the rolling pin slightly and slowly. If you feel the leather cracking, stop and add another cycle of water and oil.
Eventually the leather will become soft and floppy without breaking the leather fibers. The goal is a soft flexible leather strop that will polish the bevel and edge of a razor. Rolling will loosen the fibers and make the strop soft and flat. It will also remove the stretch marks from folding, depending on how much damage was done to the fibers.
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