For the time being my stropping experiment is degenerating into a strop making experiment. I made 10 more today. 5 combo ones with leather and fire hose. I gave one of them to my neighbor who supplied me with enough fire hose for 8 strops. I then made a leather and seat belt one and 4 more seat belt singles.

Lots of learning going on here.

I used a little heavier leather today more in the 7 ounce range and that seems better.

I never thought you could over oil leather. I was wrong. I over did one with neatsfoot oil and am trying to use lather to get rid of the excess. It is removing some but I don't know where it will end up. I am thinking that it might be good for a post shave stropping to oil the edge before storage! :-]

I used rivets today. Much quicker. Although I did screw up a punch trying to remove cores that I think were stuck from the contact cement.

I found some "fine" valve grinding compound in the garage today. I am going to put that on one of the seat belts to give it a go. The strops cost me nothing more than my time and I can make them in about 5 minutes so I have nothing to loose.

Now if I only would shave 5 times a day this experiment might make some headway.

Tim