"BIG ROO" Large Size Strop.
Southern Strop Co. specialises specifically in hand-made Kangaroo leather strops. They are proudly and meticulously, handcrafted in Australia.
These premium, class leading tools are the result of endless prototypes - utilising dependable, sturdy and carefully selected materials.
This full sized, stout, high end strop combines a homogeneous, naturally finished, fine, thin cut of Kangaroo leather thats approximately 1.5mm/0.06" thick.
That is mounted to a 20mm/0.8" thick, precision CNC cut piece of gloss black polycarbonate, inspiring confidence when in hand.
When combined these matiarials gives you a lightwieght, non absorbent, firm and hard-wearing strop.
From the ground up, they've been designed and built to be a product of the highest standards, with each strop undergoing a thorough QC process, to insure you get nothing but the best.
The result is a precise combination of class-leading materials, engineered for lasting performance - producing a lightweight, highly durable strop.
BIG ROO dimensions -
195mm×85mm×20mm.
or in SAE -
7.7"×3.3"×0.8"
- Total Weight: 388g/13.7oz
Benefits of Kangaroo Leather.
Kangroo leather is so effective due to it's unique properties.
It's renound for its fine, and tightly woven flesh fibers along with its abundance of natural abrasive silicates.
Kangaroo leather’s effectiveness comes from its unique natural properties. When used bare - without any added abrasive - it performs exceptionally well, as confirmed during my testing of various stainless and tool steels on a flesh-side-up Kangaroo strop. Its ability to realign an apex’s micro-serrations and remove notiably high hardness steel burrs was genuinely impressive.
This performance is driven by the leather’s naturally occurring silicates - ultrafine abrasives accumulated throughout the hide from a lifetime of grazing on tough native Australian grasses.
This gives Kangaroo leather an unusually high level of inherent abrasive content.
Structurally, Kangaroo leather is lighter, less dense, and far more resistant to deformation than cow or horse hide. Its tightly woven fibre structure provides excellent tensile strength, abrasion resistance, and stability, greatly reducing the “wave” effect common in thicker leathers where surface flex can roll over the apex and dull the edge.
When properly prepared and bonded to a firm, rigid substrate - such as precision-machined, perfectly flat polycarbonate - this naturally finished Kangaroo leather forms a fine yet durable, long-wearing, premium abrasive stropping surface.
