Knives Plus Strop Strop Block, Leather Sharpening Strop, 8 long" Pre-loaded with a high chrome rouge compound, and hand rubbed into leather while still warm Hand-made by Knives Plus, Knife Port is the ONLY authorized dealer Knife is pulled backwards with moderate pressure to finish edge Constructed from MDF and Chap Leather on a 8" x 2 1/2" surface Virtually no maintenance needed to keep strop in working condition