Thread: 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....