Thread: Felt alternative strop

G'day all,
been playing with this idea for a few weeks now.
i came across some compressed polyester pin board & thought it would be a great alternative to pasting my felt backing strop.
so I bit the bullet and bought a 600x800mm (24"x32") board from Bunnings hardware for $22 in Aus,

then I cut it up & got 15 off 300x80mm & 4 off 400x80mm pieces


I have applied 0.5 micron Chrox & 0.1 micron Ferrox mixed with mineral oil. Which has so far taken 2 weeks to dry.


But also applied another 2 with the Chrox & Ferrox crayons I made a while back, now these worked a lot better. So added a lace to each & went for it


now so far these have only had 4 str8s over them as part of today's honing session in place of my Balsa strops,
but definately worth while and I find them a lot more easier to use than the hard balsa as they have a little bit of flex, like my Felt strop they feel a bit rough to start with so hopefully like my felt they will smooth out more with more use as they break in
cheers
Dion

This is pretty cool. Keep us posted.

so for a bit of a test, I did a right cheek only WTG shave test with my 8/8" W&B straight of the 20 laps on each post honing,
cut down the 4 days growth like a hot knife through butter & to my surprise it wasn't harsh feeling at all.

then did my 30 laps on clean Felt followed by about 80 laps on English bridle
continued the shave with a very smooth BBS Sunday arvo shave.

now my Spanish Monkey Brunoblade, a Bengall & the Blue wonder I honed also didn't even get a shave test so will be either doing a 3 razor shave tomorrow morning or they will be spread over the week LOL