3.0" Buffalo Leather & Genuine Linen Double Hanging Straight Razor Strop

This is a good quality, no-frills no-nonsense solid and reliable strop, hand-made in England from top quality fair-faced buffalo leather.  The leather is first rate - it is a very close-grained, even textured and finely surfaced leather - ideal for stropping purposes.  The tannage makes for a firm but flexible leather with a slightly waxy look and feel, very similar to latigo.  However, the feel of the leather while stropping is much different to latigo - it is not as clinging and makes for a slightly finer edge.  This leather requires no breaking in.  I use this leather myself and find it excellent - the more it is used the finer it gets!

The leather hardware attachment flap holding the strops together is fixed with unscrewable rivets, allowing it to be taken apart (in case one component becomes damaged) while the handles are securely rivetted to the strop by means of fixed rivets.  The edges of the leather strop panel are rounded so that they are less likely to catch the razor.  The leather is about 3.5mm thick on average.  The handle is made from firm cow-hide which has been comfortably contoured and padded to fit the hand - not a cheap flat stitched handle that you find on most modern strops! 

The strop is a very good length - from the tip of the hanging gear to the bottom of the handle it measures approx. 33 inches long with a good 19.5 inches of stropping area (as this is a handmade item the actual measurements may vary a little).  This strop comes with a swivelling scissor-action hook allowing either side to be used without de-mounting.

The makers logo is embossed into the leather and may be stropped-over without harm to the razor.

Please note that this is an English handmade product, made by one individual - not a factory item made by machine, so you should expect signs of handwork such as slightly irregular stitching, etc.  Leather is a natural substance which also shows some marks and slight imperfections, none of which will interefere with the ability of this strop to produce a super-fine edge on a razor.  I always make a test prototype of every strop I sell, selecting the leather that has representations of all marks and imperfections for the test prototype, and I use it punishingly so I am very familiar with the materials I use and can personally recommend them.  The items I sell are made from leather that has far less pronounced markings, etc, than the test prototypes - anything not meeting my exacting standards is rejected!

This is a heavy strop - the packaged weight will be around 925gms.