Thread: What Do You Have In The Mail Right Now?

LOL - speaking of strops....

Christmas present to myself, once in awhile I'll go pop a visit in to various sites that the owners may be taking a sabbatical from (i.e., Wiborg), in some cases longer than others, so was super surprised to finally get my hands on a Westholme strop. Alastair is based in the UK, was a friend of our good friend Neil Miller, and he made a couple of strops and suddenly decided to drop them on his site a week ago.

I was fortunate enough to grab this gorgeous Kangaroo Hide and Natural Linen strop....got a place ready for it in Phranky's Shave Den and Pleasure Palace....

Such a bad azz strop set up that is Tom!
Those lipshaws, yup very impossible to find up here it seems Shaun.
Closest I found fir spring, but not interchangeable strops, is a nice dbl sided board strop from classicedge.ca, hand made by Ashcroft.

Wow Phrank! Funny you would say. I see some of Neil in Alistair's work. Same fabric?
That looks a winner! Kudos!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Such a bad azz strop set up that is Tom!
Those lipshaws, yup very impossible to find up here it seems Shaun.
Closest I found fir spring, but not interchangeable strops, is a nice dbl sided board strop from classicedge.ca, hand made by Ashcroft.

Best thing about them is you can put ANYTHING on them. A 1/4 grommet set is cheap!
The secret is one with the original Lipshaw black side in good nick.
Oh yeah! Secret weapon!

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Such a bad azz strop set up that is Tom!
Those lipshaws, yup very impossible to find up here it seems Shaun.
Closest I found fir spring, but not interchangeable strops, is a nice dbl sided board strop from classicedge.ca, hand made by Ashcroft.

Believe there's a nice rotating Lipshaw right now on eBay.

I have a Lipshaw strop, but not the one that rotates, if you could build the rotate part (which I know you could do), I'll send you the strop.

Here's a pic of the one I have...might need some new leather, or different attachments, and I think there might be a handsome Texan on the forum that probably has the design drawings and technical specs for all the models....ever....who could help out with the doing

Those are nailed-down to the wood, Phrank. Older examples.
These have a lot going on. Rotate in a second, change strops in a minute...
Looks like your black side is OK?

That's a sexy looking hanging strop, Phrank. Nice grab!

I haven’t seen a lipshaw like that before phrank, very cool. I’d love to tune er up..
And that roo strop! Beautiful looking score buddy. Looking forward to the draw report on that one!
My fingers are numb and black from all the polishing tonight. Calling it a night.
Hrhe.
Cheers men, almost years end!

Yeppers the Lipshaw is one amazing strop for sure.
To me there's no other way anymore to get an edge smoothed out after honing. It does make progressive stropping much easier.

Phrank.........dang man that is one great strop!!!!

Mike, you do have some amazing skillz brother. That should make your watch repair go quite well. Just astonished. You never cease to amaze

Have 5 Oleo samples and Wholly Kaw king of oud on the way