Is this Horse Butt?

I think they are just referring to the style/model of strop.

I am not sure there would be much benefit to using a super-high grade strop that is damaged over a moderate grade (but undamaged) strop...I could be wrong?
 
unit said:
I think they are just referring to the style/model of strop.

I am not sure there would be much benefit to using a super-high grade strop that is damaged over a moderate grade (but undamaged) strop...I could be wrong?
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You can almost always recondition a strop to a brand new or even better likeliness. YOu just sand off the first layer of skin there is a big thread that explains how sanding down the first layer of a horse strop, can make the strop finer, and give a more uniform pattern making it an even better finishing strop.
 
Sanding can restore a messed up leather surface, however, an aged leather is hopeless.

Since the leather is more than 100 years old, a serious form of chemical damage affecting leather bookbindings is the one in which the fibres break and, in the final stage, completely turn to powder.
Absorbtion of some chemicals in the air, like nitrogen oxides and their conversion into nitric acid probably plays a great role in the process of decomposition.

There are a lot more factors contribute to leather aging that I'm not going to blah blah...

Anyways, I wouldn't buy an old piece of leather for strop.
 
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