Thread: Resurfacing a leather strop, you can do it

I've had good luck with a vibrating sander with 150 grit followed by some 400 grit stock.

Martin

I have use sandpaper before, on my antique shell horse hide to refresh the surface. It worked good on it but the leather on this strop was much coarser on the unfinished side. When I hit it with sandpaper, it just scuffed up more shag, so I gave it a shave.

The sandpaper technique works well in adding a bit of tooth to the smooth side but on rough leather it just seems to rought it up even more. Most belt blanks, etc.... are split with a wide knife like tool to get reduce the thickness to what is needed, basically a rigid mounted bench plane. The shearing action leaves a textured, but flat surface. With hand planing one does still need to maintain a flat surface across the strop or you will have little surface contact.

Tony

Originally Posted by cannonfodder

I have a couple of leather strops that I made. The finished side of the leather is nice and smooth and makes a very good strop, but the backside is pretty shaggy. I wanted to CO paste it and use it for quick touchups to augment my paddle strop. The grain was way to coarse to do that, it would roll/chip the edge in its current condition.

So I got to thinking, how and I resurface that? I need to shave down the very top of the leather while keeping it level, hmmmmm . I need to plane it down but I am sure not going to try running it through my wood planer, I need to cut it down but by hand. Well, why not hand plain it! So I took the hardware off the strop, stretched it out and clamped it to my work bench. I got out my small super sharp hand plain (you could shave with my planes), reset the blade depth and proceeded to plane the backside of the strop. Worked like a charm.

[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']I just thought I would share, just in case someone else needs to resurface a strop, plain it down with a very sharp hand plane.[/font]

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Je suis de montréal

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Pour passe un méssage dans le site comme quoi que je cherche
Des veuille strappe usage ?

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Merci de ton aide