Thread: Car safety belt instead of linen???

Great idea, especially for a travel strop! Now, if you could incorporate the buckle into it, you could even wear your strop as a belt.

It's actually recommended in survival guides to use safety belts as hones for your cutting implements. They're good enough for knives, I can't speak for razors though.


Leather for motorcycles is mostly because it is warm, but it breaths, when motorcycles became popular it was the best choice available for abrasion protection. Synthetics easily beat it now, but it's still around because of the real reason it became popular... it looks cool.

I'm new here but have been lurking for a while....I had to smile when I saw this post! Being retired I kind of watch my spending. I have been using a length of old emergency fire hose, the canvas type and it seems to work wonderfully! I had given thought to the car seat belt but it seemed it would be too fine...am I wrong?

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

Wow you guys unbelievable.
Soon we will use anything lays flat as a strop.

I know this one chick......just kidding!

I would think that a Carhartt brown duck canvas would work as well, like Filsons tin cloth, brb.
I just tried stropping on my Carhartt sleeve nice draw, but not sure since its been treated with
BLo, beeswax for waterproofing just my 2 cents!!!!!!!

[QUOTE=hi_bud_gl;410889]Wow you guys unbelievable.
Soon we will use anything lays flat as a strop.


Hmmmmmm, That's a thought. I found these laying around the house.......



I just need to decide which end to attach to the wall.

LOL, great minds think alike! I have been using an old seatbelt for a pasted strop for about a month and the edges on my razors have shown a remarkable improvement.

might have to take a trip to my favorite salvage yard and cut a seatbelt out to use as a pasted strop.

I don't think anything beats the cotton webbing that comes with the SRD hanging felt strop.

I treated mine with a very light coating of Cerium Oxide .3 micron [yellow bar] and this seems to outperform all else.

We all are looking to save a buck and seatbelt material fills that bill but the SRD cotton is better IMO

Email Don at SRD to see if you can just buy the cotton web. Mine is 3 inch and works great for me.
On the good advice of Sham, I nolonger use any pastes of any kind on my leather strops. I believe the theory is that if you can't take care of the problem on your hones, pastes cannot help . A properly honed edge will respond quite well to a plain leather strop with no paste.



Jerry

Originally Posted by JoeSomebody

LOL, great minds think alike! I have been using an old seatbelt for a pasted strop for about a month and the edges on my razors have shown a remarkable improvement.

I like how you used the buckle for the end. I have some belts from patient lifts that are basically seat belts. We have to change them every 2 years wether they have been used or not. When I used to race we had to change our seatbelts every 2 years also. I have been going to wait until winter to try them as strops. I have been so busy all summer and hope to be this fall. First I am going to try to use those straps for a seat on a deer stand!