Okay, so balsa is easy. I really should visit my local hobby supply store, I know one nearby.. I need to pick up another stock of airplane glue, anyway (man, awesome stuff!, it even comes with a free paper bag! whoopee!) and this would be the perfect excuse. I just have to remember not to use immediately before hand, the nosebleeds are a dead giveaway.

So I would have to get a solid substance to glue it to? That makes sense, I guess balsa is pretty flimsy. I'd probably have to employ someone else's services for this, as I'm apparently not enough of a man to have this stuff laying about or the experience to put it together with any confidence.

What about the felt/wool lined balsa? I had my hopes up for that. I'd seen the video with the megastar of the straight-razor world: Lynn Abrams, giving a big thumbs up to using that kind of surface for the highest finishing polishes. I think it's the video with the modular strop thingamawhatzit. It looks like a bit of a project. I don't have the cutting tools to make the base for my balsa, maybe I could cut the balsa myself with a box-cutting knife, the kind with the blade sections in the handle that are meant to break off. I don't have the vocabulary, the words to describe this stuff, it's all too manly for me.

I have a piece of glass, square, that I used for the sandpaper before I got a DMT8C for lapping. I think it would be about long enough for a short paddle strop setup, but thin. I'd probably end up getting some wood cut to order (more $) and glue it to that. See? I wonder how much it would end up costing. But you're right, because the spray/paste would last me a lifetime of shaving use.