Dr Watson
James
Okay, so I recently won a vintage 'Roma №41' strop on fleabay... It arrived this morning and I've just got around to looking at it.
Despite the linen being a bit grubby it appears to be completely unused (I just removed the tissue paper wrapper!) Compared to my regular strop (Dovo Prima Rindleder) it feels quite different, I dont think its dry as its quite supple but in use the razor makes a lot of scraping noise as if being drawn across a hard surface... when using the Dovo strop its virtually silent apart from a slight 'swoosh'.
My experience with hanging strops is minimal, this is my third, ever. So I'm wondering if this is normal on some strops depending on the leather type or if it needs some type of oil treatment or something as its so old?
Roma on the left, Dovo on the right:
Crap pictures but may give an idea of what I'm working with here...
Despite the linen being a bit grubby it appears to be completely unused (I just removed the tissue paper wrapper!) Compared to my regular strop (Dovo Prima Rindleder) it feels quite different, I dont think its dry as its quite supple but in use the razor makes a lot of scraping noise as if being drawn across a hard surface... when using the Dovo strop its virtually silent apart from a slight 'swoosh'.
My experience with hanging strops is minimal, this is my third, ever. So I'm wondering if this is normal on some strops depending on the leather type or if it needs some type of oil treatment or something as its so old?
Roma on the left, Dovo on the right:
Crap pictures but may give an idea of what I'm working with here...