After posting that my hemp strop was a failure due to it shedding very fine fibers, I decided to try to soften it. This thread will follow this process to see what works. The first thing I did when the strop was shedding was to apply some carnauba wax, thinking that this might size the fibers and keep them from shedding. This had no effect. I read about softening hemp rope by boiling it in water, so I tried that next figuring that an added benefit would be to get the carnauba wax out of it. I boiled it for ~ 15- 20 minutes and am now drying it under tension.
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