Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-09-18
RAZOR !: sTIRoP rps.
Millions OF Them Of Many Varieties
III. Made In This Countrx Yearly.

materials, sizes, styles and manner ~
finish. They are produced In this coun-l
try to the number Of millions annually,
and American razor strops are exported
to all parts of the world. v'1fxs&ta
The very best Of the swing strops, now
SO extensively used, are made Of Russian
leather. Strops Of this kind, with the
very simplest sort Of mountings at one
end to hang the strop up by and at the
other end to hold 1t by, cost from 81 to-
81 each. Strops Of imitation Russian
heather are sold as cheaply as 80 cents.
Fine Russian leather swing strops, with
silver mountings, range in price from
&. to $25 each. !. ~. :. .ss $5i
h After those Of Russian leather the best
swing razor streps are made Of horse
hide, of which, in fact, q very large pro-
portion Of all swing strops are made.
Horsehide strops are produced In great
variety, genuine horsehide strops being
sold at from Is cents to $1.25 each.
Imitation horsehide strops, made of cow
hide, are sold at various prices, from 10
cents to Is cents each. Swing razor
etrops are made also Of calfskin and Of
porpoise leather. ". ~~ -, - s
Perhaps per cent Of the swing strops
sold consist Of the leather alone, but the
great majority Of them, of whatever
kind, grade, or quality, consist Of two
parasitic leather strop and strop Of
corresponding dimensions OF cotton or
linen. On cheap strops this part Is of
cotton. On the best strops of whatever
kind 1t Is of the best Irish linen, woven
In the form of hose and then flatten-
ed into strop form. - u
There Is a swing strop that is REVERSE
BILE. If the face Of the leather is cut
in use, the strop attachments are such
that the leather can readily be turned.
There is also swing strop that rolls up
like window shade into the attachment
from which it swings on the wall.
Hand, strops, the familiar two sided
and four sided strops, with handle at
one end, are made in very great variety.
including, for example, travelling strops,
one sort of which, small in size, has q
handle that unscrews and can be drop
ped inside place made to receive It In
the strop. a. i
Besides the hand strops of solid con
struction with two or four sides, there
are hand strops whose sides are COM
posed of leather straps drawn at either
end over supporting framework, which
can be frightened by turning up on the
handles. "a: rs
Hand strops are sold at various prices,
ranging from Is cents to 81 each; silver
mounted hand strops run up to $50, each,
Il BY no means every man that shave5
himself and has razor strop of some
sort has also a razor hone, or stone. Al: a
matter Of fact, not one man In hundred,
perhaps not one In thousand, has one.
There are men that hone their own ra-
zors, using, perhaps, a stone that came
down to them from their father, or 1t
might be from their grandfather. And
stones can be bought, IL one wants them
that way, in silver box. But as 4 rule
when mans razors need honing he Is
more than likely to take them to the bar
ber's. So that the razor stone is virtually
professional implement, used almost ex-
clusively by the BARRIERS.
OF razor stones there are two general
kinds, all of which, Of both kinds,
are imported, the water stones as they
are called, because they are used with
water, from Germany, and the oil stones.
used with oil and called Belgian oil
stones, from Belgium. Some BARRIERS use
one and some the other; and some use
both. OF course the razor stone Is a
very important part Of the BARRIERS kit
Of tools, and he values good stone high
~. And good razor stone is rather q
costly thing. .
German water stones cost from Is
cents to 81 each, and Belgium oil stones,
according to the grit and quality, from
IS cents to s. each, these prices being
for stones from G to Is inches in length,
8 inch and 10 inch being the sizes most
commonly used.-New York Sun.