The linen part of my strop needs to be cleaned or replaced. I have had some issues with some of my edges lately. Just to confirm that the linen was the issue i honed one of my razors and skipped the linen part, i just used clean leather. The razor was shaving just fine. The next day i used the razor again after stropping on linen and leather. Now the edge is not that smooth. It is still ok, but now i start to get feedback from the alum. I think there might be something in the linen that is causing issues. When the strop was new it worked just fine.
Can you clean the linen, if yes, how?
Under magnification i see random stria that was not there after the stones.
Can you clean the linen, if yes, how?
Under magnification i see random stria that was not there after the stones.