Thank you Bruce. The greatest part is, the whole thing cost me $4.12! $3.62 for the balsa (3"X 36"X 1/4") at a hobby shop and 50 cents for the wood ( it was oak baseboard reclaimed from an old home and sold at a Habitat for Humanity Re-store). I butchered the handle at first with some shoddy jig sawing and then half the handle broke off when I drilled the hole so I had to glue it with carpenter's glue.
My wife told me to bring it over to her Dad's because he's a master carpenter at Stickley furniture. I was pretty ashamed of my work so I didn't want to bring it at first. But he opened his wood-shop up and after some spindle sanding and router work it turned out fine. Good Father-in-law/ Son time. Now I'm just waiting on the paste in the mail. Pretty easy home project all in all, and honestly, I could have lived with my first attempt but I wanted to do better. I don't know why more guys don't make their own. However I am pretty excited to receive my leather strop from Tony. I had an itch for making my own leather strop too but the Legend of Tony's craftsmanship brought me around to see the light. It would have cost me more in materials to do it myself and I would have ended up with an inferior product. Anyway, thanks again.