I got my new Tony Miller oil tanned bridle plain chocolate strop today and I am impressed. I'm pretty new to SR shaving and stropping but this is very clearly a high quality piece!
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Strop Acquisition Thread
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Well it’s been about a month, I am still in love with this Tony Miller strop! Excellent results, gorgeous looking just hanging waiting to be used, and that fast silky smooth draw is wonderful.
I cant believe I've missed this thread. I happen to own a strop or three...
Gotta dress your strops properly.
Gotta dress your strops properly.
Wow that’s a huge selection of options for stropping! Nice covers BTW.
Never thought of wearing a strop as a tie, but now I can't stop thinking about it.
I own the same strop. High quality at a great price. I use my TM strop daily.
Do you know what caused all the surface warping?
It was rolled up. Work it a bit and it will smooth back out
A couple of new ones just landed from Scrupleworks in Norway. A green Swedish bridle with linen and a barbers ended travel strops. These are my first bovine leather strops. The Swedish bridle is thick, stiff and fast. The travel strop is flexible, stretchy with a slow draw.
The strops came semi rolled in a box. The strops were in a circle with the stropping surface covered in protective paper and taped to the sides of the box so that they couldn’t move. They were well packed but somewhere between Oslo and Melbourne some postal workers decided to play a game of football with the box. The leather had a few waves in it as a result. I wiped the strops with a damp towel and laid them for a day under my 10kg granite surface plate. I then hung the bridal strop for a day with a 2kg weight hanging from it. With a few hand rubbing sessions in between to heat them up and flex them, the strops are nice and flat again.
These are very nice strops. The T handle is nice touch and very comfortable. I’m also starting to enjoy barber ends more, particularly on thinner strops.
Swedish Bridle and Linen
Travel Strop with Barber End
The strops came semi rolled in a box. The strops were in a circle with the stropping surface covered in protective paper and taped to the sides of the box so that they couldn’t move. They were well packed but somewhere between Oslo and Melbourne some postal workers decided to play a game of football with the box. The leather had a few waves in it as a result. I wiped the strops with a damp towel and laid them for a day under my 10kg granite surface plate. I then hung the bridal strop for a day with a 2kg weight hanging from it. With a few hand rubbing sessions in between to heat them up and flex them, the strops are nice and flat again.
These are very nice strops. The T handle is nice touch and very comfortable. I’m also starting to enjoy barber ends more, particularly on thinner strops.
Swedish Bridle and Linen
Travel Strop with Barber End
That T handle is unusual. I like it.
T-handle is unique and works really well.
I’m also enjoying the barber ends a lot more these days. At smaller strop widths the barber ends are actually quite comfortable. It feels nice holding the leather and I feel like I get more feedback from the strop.
Love the T-handles. Wish I could still find them.
When shipping internationally I always worry at some customs stop the strop will be unpacked for inspection and repacked poorly, arriving damaged.
When shipping internationally I always worry at some customs stop the strop will be unpacked for inspection and repacked poorly, arriving damaged.
For me, it's been them opening it the minimum that they can and re-sealing it the minimum they can. I have had items with wrapping still intact that I could shake out of the box!
My first strop straightening efforts didn’t quite do the trick. I then came across this old thread from @tonymiller which has set things right. Molding the strop a little, then molding a slight crown in the middle and then flattening under the granite surface plate seems to have finally done the trick.
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fixing a wavy strop...
Hey guys, How would you guys fix a slightly wavy strop? The strop is flat, but there's a spot where the razor sort of looses good contact with the strop. The strop was shipped curled up so maybe it create a slight wave. Any suggestion? thanks! JF
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While it wasn’t the cause the waviness, the design of the Scrupleworks strop did not help. Unlike most strops where the linen and leather are separate components, on the Scrupleworks strops the two comments are sewn together into one. This means that any tension you put into the handle to pull the strop taught is halved between the leather and the linen.
I’m still on the fence with this detail. In some ways it’s nice. You don’t get the secondary component swinging around while you strop which is a plus. It is really quick and easy to switch between components by turning the handle which is also nice. The downsides are that you can not remove the linen or leather for cleaning and it’s harder to put adequate tension into the strop.
The components are sewn together at the bottom and free to slide over the hardware at the top. This is smart as it allows the tension in the two sides to balance out even if the components stretch with time. In my case the leather was left a little long and was not allowing free movement at the top. This meant that you could get the linen side tight but not the leather. I fixed this by trimming the leather and now the two sides can equalised properly.
I’m still on the fence with this detail. In some ways it’s nice. You don’t get the secondary component swinging around while you strop which is a plus. It is really quick and easy to switch between components by turning the handle which is also nice. The downsides are that you can not remove the linen or leather for cleaning and it’s harder to put adequate tension into the strop.
The components are sewn together at the bottom and free to slide over the hardware at the top. This is smart as it allows the tension in the two sides to balance out even if the components stretch with time. In my case the leather was left a little long and was not allowing free movement at the top. This meant that you could get the linen side tight but not the leather. I fixed this by trimming the leather and now the two sides can equalised properly.
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Yeah, my personal strop, the leather and linen are attached at both ends. This required me to workout the amount of stretch of both parts, at the amount of tension I like to use, so both end up flat.
Doable for one strop for me. A nightmare to do for a commercial product.
I am Norwegian. I am a bit ashamed that i did not know about these. The last thing i need is a new strop, but now i can give my wife an excuse to get one. We need to support the local craftsmen
