Thread: How and where do you hang your strop

Clip D ring on the towel rack, then after I use it. Clothes hook on back of bathroom door so a towel won't get it Wet. I re-inforced the towel rack screws, Cause my 19 year old son had a tendency to pull on it to get his shoes off.
Phil

For use - clothes hook on door (high but works for me)

Storage - in my closet. No need to have it dangle around the bathroom and risk damage from water, kids, etc. My closet is right next to our bathroom so no biggie

Cheers
Ivo

On the side of the sink vanity, it's plywood so I just bolted a threaded eye through... works great, although before putting that in I also used the door handle method.

I use a shoelace to tie it to the heater pipes. (See also my honing video)

I use a plant hook screwed by hand into the stud next to my vanity at waist level. It's no more than finger tight I could unscrew it any time but it holds securely unless I were to hang from the strop. It takes up a dead space on the wall from twelve to thirty six inches up right next to the sink, across from the shower and near the toilet yet there have been no water problems.

I read some where that it's not good to keep your strop in the bath room when you are not useing it, because of the moisture. I put my strop in my closet when I'm done with it. I think tony said this.

Originally Posted by rshave1

I read some where that it's not good to keep your strop in the bath room when you are not useing it, because of the moisture. I put my strop in my closet when I'm done with it. I think tony said this.

I do suggest that but break my own rule daily. The linen is suseptable to shrinking/expanding with humidity changes and some untreated strops will cup easily in a moist environment. I had a few Jemico strops I loved but within a week they curled to the point of being unusable. So far my treated and untreated models have remained flat and in my case with not enough linen variation to make them unusable. I have 6 strops hanging on storage hooks in my bathroom with a single, firmly mounted hook at waist height that I attach the "strop du jur" to each morning.

Tony

I've got one of Tony's strops hanging in my bathroom from a shelf at shoulder hight.

My house is circa 1938, and no fan in the bathroom. It gets pretty humid at times with my teenaged daughter taking 5 hour showers. The strop has been there for some time and is holding up fine.

I use a key ring, with a clip, attached to my towel rack. Perfect height and the key ring slides along the towel rack so I can store the attached strop at the end of the rack, or unclip it and hang it in the walk-in wardrobe with my belts.

James.

I use 4mm climbing cord attached to a #2 brass clip on the ring end of the strop and clip it to the door handle.

As with so many others I remove when done before it gets damp/wet.