Brian_T
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I got this strop from Dan and Spen at JRE Industries when I stopped in to get some help skinning and quartering my first deer:
It's 33" of stropping surface with a 6.5" folded and stitched "handle" with a metal ring riveted at the top. I'm using the ring with a carabiner to clip the strop to a wire rack. (I would think it could easily be used in an outdoors setting with a piece of paracord looped around a tree and clipped to the carabiner.)
I used it to touch up the edge on my knife as I butchered and have also used it on a couple of Tramontina machetes with great effect.
This one came pre-loaded with black compound.
I believe they're toying around with the idea of making a smaller one similar to a couple of barber strops I've got laying around here (20" OAL give or take) but I'm really liking the long strop for long blades and nice long sweeping passes with my boning knife.
It's nice to see someone make a more traditional strop that I can roll up and take with me. I'm a big fan of the wood-backed strops but you sacrifice some length for portability. Not so with this one.
Thanks for reading,
B
It's 33" of stropping surface with a 6.5" folded and stitched "handle" with a metal ring riveted at the top. I'm using the ring with a carabiner to clip the strop to a wire rack. (I would think it could easily be used in an outdoors setting with a piece of paracord looped around a tree and clipped to the carabiner.)
I used it to touch up the edge on my knife as I butchered and have also used it on a couple of Tramontina machetes with great effect.
This one came pre-loaded with black compound.
I believe they're toying around with the idea of making a smaller one similar to a couple of barber strops I've got laying around here (20" OAL give or take) but I'm really liking the long strop for long blades and nice long sweeping passes with my boning knife.
It's nice to see someone make a more traditional strop that I can roll up and take with me. I'm a big fan of the wood-backed strops but you sacrifice some length for portability. Not so with this one.
Thanks for reading,
B