My Homemade Shiznit

Since I'm going nuts with my new camera, I thought I'd do a little photo spread of my homemade shiznit. I'm a guy with average skills and only hand tools. If I can do it, you can, too. None of this stuff is great, but it all works.

First up is my $5 strop, made from a scrap piece of Latigo & some scrap stainless rod. Stitched with a hand stitching awl. (You're looking at the back, so you can see the fold & the stitching). I used a bending device in the machine shop at work. One D-ring came out much bigger than the other, so I used that one for the bottom since that's the one you have to fit your fingers in:

Next is this brush stand. My GF bought me this sweet little badger brush, but it didn't fit in my stand. So I made this out of some scrap pin brass, soldered with regular soft solder:

As I mentioned in another thread, I've been experimenting with slate hones. Much too coarse for razors, but great for knives. This huge slab is serial #0001 ;) It's sitting on my GF's kitchen counter next to her cutlery:

PCR fans will love this ;) Coochie razor, cut down & rehandled by yours truly, next to a Famous Double Arrow for size comparison (also rehandled by yours truly):

too bad on the coochie razor you couldn't get rid of the W and stamp an H. ;)

Red

All very nice! The strop's particularly good. I like examples of ingenuity keeping the costs down!

Great stuff !!. Like the slate hone :tu

How did you cut it down? I broke the tip off my first razor and have it honed down at a 45* angle and it provides a nice little upper lip /fine work trimming edge but I'm tempted to build a smaller razor either from that or some other eboy speshul to make XTG ear to adams apple parallel to the jaw line passes easier.....

Items do look purty BTW

Great stuff! I love things with that character.