Home Made Strop

mr2blue

mr2blue

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I hope this is the right place to put this.

I decided to make my own strop today. I make wood boxes so I have rems of really nice exotic wood and I thought I might as well do something useful. It was a rem, I think it is jatoba wood but not sure.

Overall length 15"
leather strop 11 1/2 "
leather width 1 5/8"

It is working really well, I think I will make a cocobolo next.

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Looks good, make some more and sell them.
 
mr2blue said:
I am going to do a double sider today and I think i will give it away in a little contest and see if I can get a REVIEW.
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That's a nice lookng, well made strop.

But I strongly advise AGAINST a double sided strop. There's just too much danger of contamination for the side that is down, unless you're using it on a table that's surgically clean! IME, single sided strops are the best way to go.
 
Ben has an interesting point... it wouldn't work for a paddle-shaped strop, but if you have a big enough chunk of wood, how about putting the leather on two adjacent sides, so that the one on the table is always plain?
 
Lucky Bob said:
Ben has an interesting point... it wouldn't work for a paddle-shaped strop, but if you have a big enough chunk of wood, how about putting the leather on two adjacent sides, so that the one on the table is always plain?
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That's a great idea
 
Do you mean something like this? Sorry, not good pic. I only changed the thickness of the leather, but used CrO both times. Contamination is no issue with this strop. It is made out of beech wood, which used to be the floor in the living room of my father's new house. :D Results have been pretty good so far.

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good looking strop, but i also suggest sticking to a single sided strop.

have you loaded the one pictured? if so, what with?
 
I don't know if I'm being cheap or lazy or both but I make mine single sided out of a 5 gallon paint stir stick.
 
Ben Dover said:
That's a nice lookng, well made strop.

But I strongly advise AGAINST a double sided strop. There's just too much danger of contamination for the side that is down, unless you're using it on a table that's surgically clean! IME, single sided strops are the best way to go.
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Beat me to it. Unless you're going to store it in a plastic bag, and be really careful about what you put it down on when you're using it, I'd stay with single-sided.
 
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