Thread: Frustrated with a capital I

Originally Posted by gssixgun

You thought he was kidding huh???

Buy Leather Powerstrop Vee and Flat Set of 2 at Woodcraft

Dang it Ed I can't get the link to work

But we had a few gents in the past talk about using them on razors, they are really for tools

People use all sorts of weird stuff to put an edge on a razor, I can't really see a power strop as practical, unless you are going to install a bench grinder in your bathroom and change out one of the wheels for the strop. Or go crazy and put 3 bench grinders in there and have 6 power strops with different pastes on each.
You could even cut your hones into discs and mount them on bench grinders too, about 3 additional grinders should do it.
Then you could install a couple of turn tables to save on space and mount 3 grinders onto each one.
OR you could just use a hanging strop and a couple of stones

Originally Posted by Wayne1963

Don't rack your brain...send it off to be sharpened.

The Brain??
~Richard

Originally Posted by edhewitt

People use all sorts of weird stuff to put an edge on a razor, I can't really see a power strop as practical, unless you are going to install a bench grinder in your bathroom and change out one of the wheels for the strop. Or go crazy and put 3 bench grinders in there and have 6 power strops with different pastes on each.
You could even cut your hones into discs and mount them on bench grinders too, about 3 additional grinders should do it.
Then you could install a couple of turn tables to save on space and mount 3 grinders onto each one.
OR you could just use a hanging strop and a couple of stones

That sounds like a dream bathroom. I'll have to sleep on the couch, but that's okay

Originally Posted by Laurens

That sounds like a dream bathroom. I'll have to sleep on the couch, but that's okay

No, you'd have the place to yourself, your girlfriend would leave, you couuld then rig up one of those bed tables like you get in hospital and do it all from bed.

To remove a burr, to identify and remove a wire edge, and to refine an edge to the level of proper aggressiveness for use within an intended task through the application of a powered medium (substrate) such as a belt or wheel.


a belt hooked up to a grinder



or any device that moves the leather at a speed allowing the user to quickly destroy a razors edge. >>

Originally Posted by 10Pups

To remove a burr, to identify and remove a wire edge, and to refine an edge to the level of proper aggressiveness for use within an intended task through the application of a powered medium (substrate) such as a belt or wheel.


a belt hooked up to a grinder



or any device that moves the leather at a speed allowing the user to quickly destroy a razors edge. >>

The first one looks quite serious, a bit too serious for razors. I always wonder how they get the circular leather. Drill out the cow in the center?

Originally Posted by Laurens

The first one looks quite serious, a bit too serious for razors. I always wonder how they get the circular leather. Drill out the cow in the center?

I think the top one would be from around the middle of the cow, and the bottom one from the leg of a calf. You just ring around your bovine with a Stanley knife twice making the incisions the appropriate distance appart for the width of belt you want to make. Carefully remove said loop of skin and voila.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

I think the top one would be from around the middle of the cow, and the bottom one from the leg of a calf. You just ring around your bovine with a Stanley knife twice making the incisions the appropriate distance appart for the width of belt you want to make. Carefully remove said loop of skin and voila.

I can see the look on my killers face when I ask him to first cut some belts out of the hide before he skins it .

Now that we have hijacked this thread I am wondering how Crow is doing ?

Originally Posted by 10Pups

I can see the look on my killers face when I ask him to first cut some belts out of the hide before he skins it .

Now that we have hijacked this thread I am wondering how Crow is doing ?

sorry ...

Oh well, he must have moved on to another thread. :<0)