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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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.As a long time SR shaver, I really appreciate a good piece of leather for stropping. Tony Miller makes a fabulous strop at a great price! This one one is rated slower than others…I am mind blown because it’s uber fast and super quick turn 40 smooth laps. In case anyone wants to know what 30+ years of strop use looks like I included the old with the new.
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Wow that’s a huge selection of options for stropping! Nice covers BTW.I cant believe I've missed this thread. I happen to own a strop or three...
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Gotta dress your strops properly.
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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Do you know what caused all the surface warping?Bulls hide and linen. Still need to treat and smooth out the leather. And a travel linen.
It was rolled up. Work it a bit and it will smooth back outDo you know what caused all the surface warping?
That T handle is unusual. I like it.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.
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Travel Strop with Barber End
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T-handle is unique and works really well.That T handle is unusual. I like it.
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!When shipping internationally I always worry at some customs stop the strop will be unpacked for inspection and repacked poorly, arriving damaged.
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.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.
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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 craftsmenA 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
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Travel Strop with Barber End
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