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]

Wonderful idea!

VERY cool idea; thanks for sharing (committing this to memory......there we go).

Chris L

Very Cool! Can you get a close up shot of the leather? How smooth is it?

When I rubbed in the chromium oxide it roughed up the surface a little, but it is still smoother than before. I will get a photo of it later today. I would say it is between smooth finished leather and swade. There is a little nap to the surface.

Cool beans. That is what I though it was from the pic, but couldn't really tell. Again, great job!

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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