Hand made by thiers issard of france this hand held dual leather strop is generally used as a substitute to the hanging leather and canvas strop possible through a hollowed body design allowing the leather strop to have flex much like the hanging strop made of natural hardwood with a mahogany finish this hand held strop comes with two different leather surfaces the smooth leather is for pre shave stropping and finishing and the other is intended for use with sharpening pastes presented