You don’t want to mix grits on the same strop, so this is where having multiple sides or multiple strops comes in very handy. I use one with two sides. One side has a courser grit compound, and the ...

Pictured here is a circa 1937 Stropone razor sharpener. The company’s name, Stropone Inc., is a play on the word strop, or stropper, which was a strip of leather used for sharpening straight ...