Thread: strop hook

this may be a weird question but here goes, what do you use as a hook to hang your strop from and at what hieght, I am assuming height is a preference(not to high or low).

I tie mine to end of the towel rail using cloth tape/ ribbon that is tied to my strop... if that makes sense.

Works well for me - just tie a bow (like your shoe lace) and untie when I'm done. Then I tie it to handle behind my bedroom door when I'm done.

make sense, i use the towel "bar" or rail as well, just looking around webites you never see a "hook" for sale and was just wonder what everyone used.

Funny how these things come up around the same time....

Here's another thread covering the height.

I use a door handle. If you don't have a ring to clip it onto, you can buy one, or improvise.

thanks for the link, i was right i guess, for the most part it goes right down to personnal preference

That's it really. Just like everything else related to this game, it's about what works for you.

+1 for the door knob. I use a cable tie, also known as a zip tie around the knob and clip my strops to that.

I have seen strop hooks for sale before, on some hardware website or another. A simple metal hook that gets screwed into the wall. But I have never seen them for sale on a shaving-related website.

A cup hook and a drawer escutcheon at a few inches below waist/belt level. It's mounted/anchored in the wall behind my bathroom door. I think the total cost was a few dollars and it looks better than just screwing a hook into the wall.

There are some websites that sell hundreds of types of the round escutcheons many of which are very cool looking. I'm surprised no one has marketed such things as strop wall decorative hardware. If someone wants to run with the idea, just flip me a razor or something.

Chris L

I use the same thing without the fanciness. Figure with the dump I'm living in at the moment why bother? Hopefully I'll get moved sometime next year and can actually set up a presentable "shave den" with all (or at least a bunch of) the frills. Just make sure if you do something like this that it's anchored good. I pulled the first one right out of the wall