Thread: Resurfacing a leather strop, you can do it

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]