Help Identify a Specific Strop?

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tueller

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After searching for hours, I cannot find a strop that caught my eye a while back. I am kicking myself for not bookmarking it. I am pretty sure I saw it on a link in this forum but I am not sure. It was a 4 sided strop on a squared wood piece w/ the wood coming to a rounded handle at the end. The 4 leather sides were different colors to signify different coarseness (if that is even a word). Sorry if I used incorrect terminology... this would be my first strop. Any help would be appreciated. A name, link, etc would help. Heck while your at, let me know what you think of it. Thanks.
 
Why not just make your own? I made 3 yesterday...free paint stir sticks from the store, the glued on pieces of old leather belt from Goodwill.

You want to keep the strops separate anyway to avoid cross contaminating. With a multi side, what would stop you from getting coarse grit from one side onto another finer git? Picture getting the edge where you want it, then seeing a series of odd scratches from picked up grit just when you should be finishing it.

Make cheap or free strops yourself, single sided, then store them in baggies to keep them clean and at the proper grit.
 
Sounds like the JRE Industries Strop Bat.

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I got one of the very first ones (before they started loading them with compound.)

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Thanks Brian_T the JRE Industries Strop Bat was definitely it as I was looking at this page... http://jreindustries.com/strops.htm

To Mrdeus, thanks for the other models. Always nice to have some other options to make an informed decision.

To Nasty, thanks for some valid points. Sometimes I feel like when I undertake making a project myself, it ends up costing more and coming out worse then if I just bought one. I have ran into this making or modding sheaths... by the time I was done, I should have just bought a custom sheath :) That probably says more about me than the concept :) That is a great point about mixing the compounds that I did not think about. Maybe I will end up just getting a single or starting with the bat (being careful to minimize the mixing of the compounds), then attempt making some single strops once I get the hang of it.

To Roogalator, well I probably can't but it is important to remember that others can :)

Thank you for the help guys. The amount of knowledge and willingness to share on this forum always blows my mind.
 
BTW Brian_T, are you happy with the strop bat? Do you find Nasty's concerns about mixing the compounds to be an issue?

Thx.

PS- I would be using mostly w/ esee knives and ka bar becker knives... but sure for some others from time to time as well.
 
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I'm not a fan of the strop bat, too many ways to contaminate each strop.


Look on my Sig for a little "how to"
 
Well, it's not as easy as it seems, you still have to turn the bat to see the different labels.
Plus they are numbered in order of use.
 
Maniacal Pete said:
Well, it's not as easy as it seems, you still have to turn the bat to see the different labels.
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Geez! It's almost like an I.Q. test! I guess that's why I prefer single-sided bench mounted strops. Especially if they have those little rubber feet.


Stitchawl
 
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