I started this project about 30 years ago. Today I was looking through some stuff and found this grasshopper that I cast in brass. As I held it in my hand I thought it may work as a strop burnisher. The following is what I ended up with. I rounded off and polished the sprue. It worked as expected but it left the strop darker from the metal wearing off.
A fun morning!
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