Thread: My strops... Handmade in my Kitchen!

Originally Posted by Pete_S

Those look nice. I'm no expert, but I think you may eventually have problems from that single centered ring that you have them hanging on, I could see it causing cupping or bowing. You'll notice that most strops spread the tension out the width of the strop. I'm sure you could fix it pretty easily if you decide to do so.

Hah, thread resurrection.

I got a pasted and unpasted strop from fpessanha and use em pretty often. So far they aren't cupping at all.

Originally Posted by fpessanha

Nice question, Pete! Thanks!
I started this thread quite a while ago and these strops have been in use ever since I made them. I never had any trouble with cupping or anything like that. They are, however, a little stiffer, but still doing a fine job. I believe that the width of these is optimum in what concerns cupping. The force caused by thension of the strop does not cause any cupping because the "hole" is well centered and the width is not very big. However, I made a strop for my brother last Xmas and I made it a bit wider (not sure about the measurements...) and I found that it cups just a little bit if pulled too tightly. Its a problem I will have to solve as soon as he starts using it...
But I asure you that I never had any trouble with these, the first ones I made. I did another one for a member here (Joke1176) and to my knowledge he never had any trouble.
Again, thanks for asking and raising an interesting problem!

Oops, I noticed the date, but I was thinking that it was still 2008, so it was only a couple weeks old. Yeah, I would have asked if you had cupping issues if I had realized the date.

Originally Posted by joke1176

Hah, thread resurrection.

The resurrection thing wasn't my fault. I was fooled by a clever ruse. Damn you Carioca, damn you to hell!






(just a joke, Carioca)