Thread: Making a strop - Guidence requested

Hi everyone,

My family has a leather hat and belt business, so I've got the tools and materials available to me to make a strop.

Just had a few questions regarding it.

- Is it okay to use chrome-tanned leather?
- The leather I'm thinking of using is a shoulder skin off a cow, is there a limit on the thickness of a hanging strop, as this is leather we use for belts?
- I've noticed alot of strops are not very wide, is there a particular reason for this? Do people think a wider strop would be better
- & finally, what length should i make it?

Sorry if all these are beginner questions, but...well I AM a beginner

Belt thickness should be fine. A wider strop (3 inches) is fine. I think the max stropping length you want is 17 inches, not counting what you put on for your grips and such. Longer then that and it sags.

Cant say about chrome or the reason. Think I read they were narrower in the past b/c of cost.

jimbo has a post how to maks a strop in this forum have a lookit will get you theire in pics.

Originally Posted by ronnie brown

jimbo has a post how to maks a strop in this forum have a lookit will get you theire in pics.

• Making a (very) home-made strop - Straight Razor Place Wiki
• http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...-jimboroo.html

I have one too. It rules supreme.

okay, i have some roo leather offcuts here at work.
I think I may make a strop out of some when I get the chance