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06-15-2009, 05:00 AM #1At this point in time...
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Made my own Leather Bench Strop/Hone
Some people refer to these as a leather bench hone I still call them a strop...
But what ever you call it I just finished this one up today... I used a 1x3x24 piece of poplar from Home Depot for the base they had 3 of these and they were on clearance today for .50 cents each
two were straight so I bought them... The nominal size was 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 24...
I used Dap contact cement to glue the leather I bought from a boot cobbler to the wood, the leather was 3x24 so it was slightly oversize.... I clamped down the leather to the wood by using the second piece of wood and 3 C-clamps 8 hours later I ran the finished Strop on the table saw and trimmed the leather to perfect size then used a sanding block to bevel in the edges... 4 silicon bumper pads in the corners keep it from moving on a hard surface.... I am going to let it dry until I get home from work tomorrow night then put some of the new powdered Cerium Oxide on it....
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06-15-2009, 05:21 AM #2Comfortably Numb
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sweet glen, I am going to have to make one of those.. pretty good size!
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06-15-2009, 05:45 AM #3Senior Member
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Sweet!
I like the length of the strop/hone/?- very nice.
Charlie
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That is cool. I am not handy with tools, nor do I have any as I live in a condo. Anyone want to make me one?
Wonder if some sort of a cloth would work better than leather for crox? ie, the felt that SRD advocates or a cotton weave.
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06-15-2009, 06:05 AM #5Qui tacet consentit
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That thing is huge (I know, "That's what she said")!!
Seriously, great work Glen!
It looks like it's designed for some long laps. Would you explain why you wanted it so long?
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06-15-2009, 01:21 PM #6Senior Member
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long strokes always gets it their faster.
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06-15-2009, 01:48 PM #7At this point in time...
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Bjorn:
Basicaly just like Ronnie said part is you get there faster ie: less laps
But this is also a total finish strop, I designed it specifiacly for using it with the CeOx so I can do just a few very long, very smooth, very light, laps.....
Leighton:
Lynn is using the Yellowstone on his web strop, I know that works just fine, but that is like using a large crayon... I bought some of the pure powder form of the CeOx so I am going to mix it with Neatsfoot oil and try it on the leather.....
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