Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-01
RAZOR STROPs.
Millions of Them of Many Varieties
Made In This Country Yearly.

Millions Of Them of Many Varieties
Made In This Country Yearly.
From the New York sun.
Razor etrops are made in hundreds of va.
rieties. counting kinds. qualities. materials.
sizes. styles and manner OF finish. They
are produced I'm this country to the number
OF millions annually, and American razor
strops are exported to all parts of the
world.
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 leather are sold as
cheapiy as 80 cents. Fine Russian leather
swing streps with silver mountings range
In price from $ to $50 each.
After those Of Russian leather the best
swing razor strops are made of horsehide,
OF which. In fact. a very large proportion
or all swing strops are made. Horsehide
strops are produced in great variety genu-
Inc horsehide stroPs being sold at from %
strops. made Of cowhide. are sold III va
rious prices. from 10 cents to IS cents each.
Swing razor strops are made also of calf
skin and Of porpoise leather.
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 parts the
leather strop and a strop of corresponding
dimensions OF cotton or linen. On cheap
strops this part is OF cotton, on the best
strops Of whatever kind It Is of the best
irish linen. woven in the form of hose
and then fia,tened into strop form.
There Is a swing strop that Is reversible.
II the face of the leather Is cut in use the
strop attachments are such that the leather
can readily be turned. There is also a
swing strop that rolls up like window
shade into the attachment from which IL
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,
which. small in size. has a handle that UNI
screws and can be dropped inside a place
made to receive 1t in the strop.
Besides the hand strops of solid construc-
strops whose sides are composed Of leather
straps drawn at either end over a support
ing framework, which can be frightened by
turning UP on the handles
Hand strops are sold at various prices
ranging from Is cents to "a each: silver
mounted hand strops run up to s25 each
BY no means every man that shaves him.
self and has razor strop Of some sort has
fact not one man In hundred. perhaps not
one IN thousand, has one. There are men
that hone their own razors using perhaps
a stone that came down to them from their
father. And stones can be bought. If ono
wants them that way. in a silver box. But
as rule. when a mans razors needs honiny
he Is more than likely TO take them to the
BARRIERS: SO that the razor stone is virtually
a professional implement, used almost ex-
clusively by the BARRIERS.
or razor stones there are two general
kinds, almost 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 very important part OF
the BARRIERS kit Of tools, and he values a
good stone highly. And a good razor stone
Is rather a costly thing.
German water stones cost from q cents
to 50 each; and Belgian oil stones. accord
ing to the grit and quality. from Is cents
to s. each these prices being for stones
from six 10 fifteen inches In length: eight
inch and ten-inch being the sizes most com.
monty used.