Thread: Starter strop

Originally Posted by EAGLESKADU

As I'm still new to the addictions of SRP not one specific All the above, is suggest as others have mentioned making one. It's pretty damn cheap to get scrap smooth leather 3" x whatever length, find a piece of wood that's
3" wide and some elmers glue and your done. It does a few things, one you made it, its cheap so the wife is fine with it. And two if you ruin it with nicks its ok, good practice in anticipation for further purchase of a great strop.I bought a beautiful hanging strop that's still in the bag as I love my paddles and am getting the full swing of it before I break her out. And to be honest I really enjoyed building my paddle strop, the simple wood working was fun. Just my opinion.
Respectfully
Christian

Elmers glue is not a good choice of adhesives for leather.

Get more than one if you can afford it I bought a 3" bridle for my good strop and a 2" to practice on. It seems that it took longer to learn to strop correctly ghan to hone.

Russell

Originally Posted by Krusty01

Get more than one if you can afford it I bought a 3" bridle for my good strop and a 2" to practice on. It seems that it took longer to learn to strop correctly ghan to hone.

Russell

Yes Sir! There was a time when I was so bad at stropping I shaved right off the 12k. Paddle strop solved the issue for me quickly. I have a 3 inch paddle , a dovo 2 inch hanger and a big daddy 3 inch hanger. It took a while before I could use the hanger. Learn that stropping because the edge really gets lost fast. And then you got to hit the hone again.

Quite the discussion from something I thought was so mundane!

I'm going with the board strop I posted, and maybe when I'm richer I'll get a nicer one. Right now I'm just concerned about keeping my edge so I can continue to shave.

Thanks for all your comments!

Illinois strops are good & cheap. I do recommend getting a 3" strop, the extra width is easier to learn on.

Originally Posted by Firefighter2

Illinois strops are good & cheap. I do recommend getting a 3" strop, the extra width is easier to learn on.

I agree with this. I own an Illinois strop and it's not very wide. Gotta use x-strokes on it. I really want to "upgrade" to a 3-inch strop sometime to just make it easier (not that I really have any problems right now, I guess). But yes, my Illinois strop seems to be of good quality.

Chreees-
My Illinois 827 is 2 1/2" wide, which is better than my 206, which is 2" wide. Pretty easy to work with, but my SRD strops are 3" wide, so no 'X' pattern is necessary if one was just learning, although they're more expensive.

once i got the motion I didn't have any problems. granted I'm only a half week in. the only major hiccough i had was that little nick.

If i may recommend to the op, listen when you strop, if the sound changes between back and forth or while in motion you are not doing something right

Originally Posted by gunsandbibles

once i got the motion I didn't have any problems. granted I'm only a half week in. the only major hiccough i had was that little nick.

If i may recommend to the op, listen when you strop, if the sound changes between back and forth or while in motion you are not doing something right

It's actually not at all uncommon for razors to make different sounds coming and going. While I like to blame the doppler effect, all sorts of things including blade geometry, strop 'grain', or, yes, technique could be causing that.

So if it sounds different, by all means pay extra attention to your technique, but also be aware that it could be caused by something else.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

It's actually not at all uncommon for razors to make different sounds coming and going. While I like to blame the doppler effect, all sorts of things including blade geometry, strop 'grain', or, yes, technique could be causing that.

So if it sounds different, by all means pay extra attention to your technique, but also be aware that it could be caused by something else.

On that note the N00b (i.e me) is going to shut up and let the people that really know what they are talking about talk