Thread: the ugliest strop ever?

Before going any further with this post lets make one thing clear, this strop is ugly. It's very ugly. It's got to be the ugliest I have seen. Newspaper with a clip would look better. It's so ugly I tried three cameras to get a shot of it. It is pig ugly. If it went on a date with the elephant man he would be the looker. If it was the baby of a nice strop the nice strop would have eaten it at birth. It is an ugly strop.

Moving on...

Having recently been given an of cut off leather I did exactly what I should, decided to fashion a strop from it. When I say I should do, I generally mean anyone else, I'm rubbish at arts and crafts type stuff and really shouldn't try. None the less I carried on and prepared my leather. I gave it several days worth of applying lather and rubbing it as much and add often as I could.

Today I finally decided to give it a go and took my knife to it...



I had an old cheap ebay strop and used the hook from that. The handle end had a rather useful cut, I was going to remove the curved section and make a proper handle but I discovered that it actually felt pretty good so I left it for now.

I took a couple of razors to it, one long past needing a very good strop and one I know to be shave ready. The one needing a good strop was tree topping arm hair on 30 laps, it wasn't before I started. The one shave ready shows no signs of dulling. Of course the test will be the shave, but so far for something nature would reject its actually looking pretty good.

I'm off to shave, will update this in a while....