Thread: Wade & Butcher reshape ???

I guess I should add to that that I'm not saying I don't want to learn new things. In particular stopping Is kind of a muscle memory issue. Johnny Winter was quoted as saying if you hit a wall playing guitar put the guitar down... Not for a couple of days or a week but for a couple of months. I suppose the idea is that your mind gets program to a certain thing and you almost have to forget some of it.

I hear you. I am just loaded with doing things the way I learned them. Good to be around those with different ways.
I kick myself all the time being around these guys. BUT, if it ain't broke?

The minute you stop learning, you are dead.

Originally Posted by 32t

The minute you stop learning you are dead.

Well how do you learn you're dead?

Paul-Johnny Winter was dead right of course. When I used to play a LOT of guitar, when I would hit a wall skill-wise, got stuck in a rut, whatever, I would put it away for weeks at a time, then come back playing better than ever!

As for the necessity of x-stroke stropping, I hate it-too much unnecessary movement back and forth on every stroke for me. What works for me is to just gradually move the blade laterally across the strop while I'm stropping straight back and forth, generally about 5 strokes in each position-heel, toe, middle of blade. I have some 3" strops, and they will mostly hit all of the edge (especially the flexible kangaroo!), but I still do this even on them, just to keep everything evened out. I have been doing it this way for years, and it works for me-ymmv.

The x-stroke on a strop is unnecessary wasted motion IMO. But everybody has to do what works for them.

Thanks Aaron. Long time no...see..??..........you know what I mean. School must be keeping you busy and away from the riff raff.

Yep, I seem to move it around on the strop some too. Gotta get that heel and toe extra.
Exception is my roo strop from Gabe. We got crossed-up and I told him I wanted the normal length.
So and so. So and so included the handles.
I got some extra real estate on that one as He made the stropping surface that long!
I can really finesse an entire edge on that one!

How do you get kangaroo hide? I didn't think you could hunt those things. I was kind of under the impression it was like wild turkeys here or moose in Alaska. The regulations on hunting are as if they are endangered but they're a freaking nuisance is what they are. I've always wanted to eat a kangaroo. Biologists say They are the marsupial equivalent of a deer. I always wondered if they taste like one. Probably tastes like chicken

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

How do you get kangaroo hide? I didn't think you could hunt those things. I was kind of under the impression it was like wild turkeys here or moose in Alaska. The regulations on hunting are as if they are endangered but they're a freaking nuisance is what they are. I've always wanted to eat a kangaroo. Biologists say They are the marsupial equivalent of a deer. I always wondered if they taste like one. Probably tastes like chicken

I have a mate down under and he tells me that the export of 'Roo Hides' is highly regulated. Here's a link to where to purchase it from a licensed exporter. My mate did tell me that you run the risk of a lot of scars so Buyer Beware!

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While I can't say for sure but I bet they taste a lot like a platypus--

Hey back, Paul-I'm still keeping tabs, and posting occasionally, but yeah, school keeps me busier than the proverbial one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

As for kangaroo hide, I got mine pre-cut, the right length and everything from an ebay seller called outthere09. Price and shipping were reasonable, and the quality was superb. He/they carry very high-quality stuff and ship it tightly rolled. I then just got the strop hardware kit from Razor Emporioum and made my own-it was actually pretty easy (else I wouldn't have been able to do it lol!). Highly-recommended to add to your strop rack; they really hug the curves on those smiling blades many of us favor!

And yeah, having driven pretty extensively in the Eastern Outback of Australia, the kangaroos are EVERYWHERE. Magnify our whitetail deer population x10, and you have some idea how pervasive they are. On many roads, you have to dodge and weave all around the bloated dead ones, and you take your life into your hands when driving at night (which is why all the "Utes" and trucks down there have "roo-bars" on the front. I brought home a kanga hide that decorates my sofa right behind me. And for what it's worth, I had kangaroo on a stick from a street vendor in Sydney. It was delicious, and tasted like steak, seriously!

Get a roo hide and make your own-seriously, there is no other strop like it.

edit: I just realized that the strop in the pic is a "Kangaroo" strop that is actually horse shell (though laying on an actual kanga hide), and also a great strop. I can't seem to find a pic of the real thing on my computer right now-need to send one from my phone.