Description
The Dovo 32450112 calf hide leather strop (formerly model no. 152-40001) is their basic offering made of extremely high quality, gently-vegetable-tanned calf leather. It’s a sensible choice for the minimalist that just wants top quality without ‘excessive’ size, or as a second strop dedicated for a sharpening paste. It also makes a great pairing with a wheel-shaped wooden block backing to produce and maintain a concave bevel form on your straight razor, the basic notion of which you can see here (using the less-curved axis of that wooden block as the backing shape). Proudly produced by hand in Solingen, Germany.
The process for producing these Solingen calf hide strops hasn’t meaningfully changed in well over one hundred years, and really can’t be improved by any modern means. The hides are put through a progression of soaking in a tannic solution, starting more aggressively and finishing very mild, and it results in their signature supple nature.
The Dovo 32450112 has a D-ring type bottom handle and a nickel-plated swiveling ring for hanging, with boot type stitching for the endcaps.
The meaningful stropping surface on this strop is about 1.75 x 13″ [4.5 x 58 cm].
