strop

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I've been into sharpening lately, so I made this.

I got the leather out of the scrap bin at a leatherworking shop nearby. Cost: one dollar. The body is a chunk of birch out of the cutoff bin at my lumberyard. Cost: 25 cents.

So a buck and a quarter worth of strop. Dimensions were determined by the leather scrap. If this proves useful I'll go back and get some more (a five dollar scrap piece is quite a lot of material).



Not so elegant, but useful.

[Red88chevy]

Rob it looks great, bet it cost you alot more than 1.25 to buy from Woodcraft!

[leehljp]

Many people don't know just how much those things help! Dad used to have the flexible kind, and it flexed around my b... a few times!

[Pappy]

Many people don't know just how much those things help! Dad used to have the flexible kind, and it flexed around my b... a few times!

I danced to that tune a few times, too!

[Uncle Cracker]

Isn't it amazing how times have changed? Did that now, they'd lock you up.

[Ken Massingale]

I danced to that tune a few times, too!

Make that 3!

[mater]

Many people don't know just how much those things help! Dad used to have the flexible kind, and it flexed around my b... a few times!

My Jr HS principle used his on me a few times.

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A guy might come to the conclusion that you all were an unruly bunch (at least as youths).

This particular technology wasn't familiar to me until I learned more about sharpening.

[Uncle Cracker]

A guy might come to the conclusion that you all were an unruly bunch (at least as youths).

Heck, I was an unruly bunch all by myself...

[lrogers]

Yep, I felt a strop a time or two myself. I like the use you've put it to much better.

[ironhat]

I danced to that tune a few times, too!

You'd be surprised how hard a 4'-10" Italian beautician can swing one of those! I got it even if she thought I was guilty of something. When it was handed down to my sister whe she had her first child, sis chopped it into little pieces. I wish she ad told me beforehand... I'd have like to had a whack at it myself! Ah, tender memories - LOL!

[ragswl4]

Many people don't know just how much those things help! Dad used to have the flexible kind, and it flexed around my b... a few times!

I remember those days. Probably why you turned out so good!

[eezlock]

strop....

Dear old dad didn't have a strop to use on me and my two brothers.....
but he had a BIG, Wide, Thick, leather belt that he used to get the same message across to all of use the was more than effective in my opinion.
eezlock