Just to let you all know, for those that sharpen their own chisels and plane cutters, there is a seller with the best leather there is for this purpose which is "horse butt" (as I have read), on ebay and on with their own website. I ordered one for my DP wheel (almost done making that) and will use another piece for hand stropping. Supposedly this is very thin leather (5/64 to 5.5/64) that is extremely tough, these pieces are "vegetable tanned" (veggy oil?). It is a nice large whole piece, not diced-up. He emailed me back in reply and said they have thousands of whole ones. I read in a forum that if used correctly one piece will last a lifetime.
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then "side leathers" and scroll down to"North of Cordovan" and you'll see it. I think it would better not to glueit to a piece of wood when you can flip it over and have two qualities ofgrain. Alex