Thread: How To Make a (Very) Home-made Strop: A life in pictures.

Aim for Sarah Palin- same thing. By the way have you seen James T Kirk or the Enterprise anywhere around?

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Keep looking Ron. If you can find one that's been under a 16 wheeler the hide is really supple

I'll keep that in mind, though apparently I'll have to rent a truck and find me a zoo...

Originally Posted by picketth

Aim for Sarah Palin- same thing. By the way have you seen James T Kirk or the Enterprise anywhere around?

I don't think I could get any good stropping material out of her. Sure, the head is thick, but the rest of her is pretty thin-skinned.
Haven't seen Kirk yet, since he's not due to be born for another 223 years from now. Besides, since I don't gamble, I don't go to the casino in his future birthplace anyway.
I also haven't seen the Enterprise yet. It turns out building a warp drive takes longer than I planned.

I just looked them up and sent and email. also I have a friend who culls roo's in Mt Gambier, If I can convince him to use a 22 instead of a 12 guage, and not drink beer at the same time I might get a decent hide! Unfortuanetly I am home ill and on oxycondone, which is worse than shoot after a bottle of single malt scotch!

How about a raccoon strop, Utopian?

Plenty of those along the road. I counted a little over one per mile on I-94 in Michigan.

Plus you could make brushes from the tails!

Thanks for the post. Just made one.. Cow hide, but worked great. I was using a piece of bench leather I've used for pocket knives for years on my razor just to get by, but I really like the strop. Technique sucks but a much improved result still over the bench. Used alot of parts I already had to get around the lack of a few things but all in all $3 for a remnant from a local leather shop and I have a new strop. Thanks for the help.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I think the place Mick told me about was called Packer Leather tannery.

Kangaroo Leather | K Leather | High Performance Leather | Packer Leather | Australia

James.

Originally Posted by picketth

Thanks for the heads up with the roo hide. I hope that Mick will post where he gets his gear from. Hey where to you get those D rings, rivets and the other stuff from.
Just FYI. I'm in Adelaide.
Cheers
Harry

Sorry for not seeing this sooner. Jimbo is correct as to my source. Ask for either grade one whip thonging hide, or for a thicker hide go for grade one Falconry. It costs more though, and is finished one stage sooner, so it doesn't have as strong a draw. 'Roo hide is a fine grained leather so for stropping an already sharp edge, it should really be the 'coup de grace'. I get Dees and rivets (you'll want shorter rather than longer) from Packer as well.


Mick

So Mick this leather is no good for a general strop?
Should I not get Roo hide for a DIY strop ?

This leather is, in my opinion, one of the better, if not the best strop leathers to use. I think you should make yourself a 'roo strop, providing sloppy technique doesn't kill it on you, you will have this strop for years to come. I sent you a PM on this subject as well Sharpy.


Mick

This is the entire point of the thread sharpy. How to make a home made strop with kangaroo leather. See the original posts.

James.

Thanks Jimbo, I was just trying to clarify if a kangaroo hide strop was some kind of special "finishing" strop (to be used after a normal strop).
It was a Noob question, I realise now that is not the case