Thread: Made my own Leather Bench Strop/Hone

Wow, this is creepy. I made a long narrow strop to test Cerium Oxide this past weekend also. Also made of popular (from lowes), except mine is about 14 inches, I think. I used several sheets of canvas from a fabric store instead of leather. The stuff seems to work great. The only problem I had was I made the 2 sided canvas paddle strop to test two things, one was the cerium, the other was to try the effects of giving the blade a stropping with a good, fine metal polish (Mothers) as part of honing, so I wasn't sure what was giving the results. I really should try them separately to see if the polish is doing anything.

I'm looking forward to the thread, I'd like to see what others have to say about the cerium. It seemed to give a very smooth, very fine edge.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

You might PM Doc and see if he has some of his 4 siders left,,, because the chances of me making more of these are rather slim Too many restores too little time

What I might try is buying a replacement leather from Straight Razor Design and gluing that to a board like you did and then put Balsa wood on the back side of it or something else. I really like this idea though. I'll get one of these one way or another.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

I'll do a separate thread on the Ce Ox powder there are several of us using it right now, the initial results are fantastic...

I'll be glued to the screen waiting to hear about this one!
Leather? Felt? either one can be used?

Glenn,

does your leather source still have anything like this left. i have the access to the tools to make one of these just not the leather

Originally Posted by jballs918

Glenn,

does your leather source still have anything like this left. i have the access to the tools to make one of these just not the leather

You could take a look here...

Vegetable Tanned Leather