Thread: Show us your Shave Den!

Thank you for your kind words. A Strop is all you want? Let me get back to you on that.

I have had several guys ask me about what it takes to make one. I am thinking about posting he tool and material list on the forum. I had no idea it would go over this good.

Originally Posted by hidestoart

Thank you for your kind words. A Strop is all you want? Let me get back to you on that.

I have had several guys ask me about what it takes to make one. I am thinking about posting he tool and material list on the forum. I had no idea it would go over this good.

I had to look at your previous picture twice and hen enlarged. For a moment there I thought you might have owned one of my strops!


Mick

Hello Mick,

Thanks for looking. I can say that I made my strops. all of those you see are my seconds or where I am playing with a design. I don't want to send them out or throw them away so, I keep them. I do custom leather work for the cowboy action shooting crowd. I mostly use my drops from 3" holster belts or mule rigging. I have a side of English bridle that a customer ordered that they never picked up that I do alot of my strops out of.

Isn't it funny that when you make the things, you only seem to have the lesser ones for yourself. I have three of my own and not a one of them is what I would have considered sale worthy. I have the first one I ever made and two others made from what I considered to be too short a strap of leather for selling. One live permanently out at my shack on the farm, one for daily use and the other is a narrow travel strop kept at home for the 'just in cases's' in life.


Mick

Mick, That is the exact boat that I am in. "The cobblers kids had no shoes" & The leather worker has only seconds at his house.