Thread: Thoughts on make-shift strops.

OH, well, you're a brit then, explains everything. Intellectuals, the lot of them.

As happens, I'm a usetabe once was leatherworker with odd leftovers, one being a side of 12-14 oz saddle leather, a bit heavy for belts. One cut for a strop I was thinking of for myself, though it would take beveling and conditioning. That part isn't tedious and I've got the requirements.

Wouldn't be difficult to cut a second one, and its true cost is probably less than the shipping, say 10-12$ or thereabouts, a nominal sum.

If you have any idea you'ld want such a thing, I would be forced to dig out my strapcutter and actually do it, rather than continue procrastinating. It's an extra heavy hand picked side, or I wouldn't have bought it, and I think strops would be a fine use for it.

Not that I ever made one, but leather quality I do know something about, and treating leather. Neatsfoot oil and glycerin soap and lanolin and beeswax don't hurt leather.

I'd best find my strapcutter, I've likely talked myself into it..