Thread: Homemade Hanging Denim strop

In my continuing garage-tech/low-tech adventure in wet-shaving, I decided to make a stand alone denim strop. I have read some posts about it and here is my take on it.

Here is the breakdown:

Old jeans from my youngest daughter.
Eyelet tool $1.67
Eyelets 1/4" $2.67
Leather trim leftover ~$5.00
Big metal clip $0.97
Sheet of 200 grit sand paper ~?

The pants were cut into usable pieces. The pieces on the left were used for this project. The pieces on the right were used for Dubl Duck strop. More on that in another post.


I stitched the 2 pieces of large denim together (to prevent sliding). After the initial stitching, the denim was stitched into a sleeve and the reversed. I then made a leather end "cap" to finish one side of the strop. The challenge with the end cap was stitching it to the denim. After some Google-ing I got the answer. I used an awl-type punch (from my wife's scrapbooking tools) and punched small holes into the denim that allowed for easier sewing.



After hand sewing the end cap I added an eyelet for the handle.



The handle I chose for this strop was a twisted solomon lanyard. It was easy to make with some shoelaces I had in the closet.


To finish the top side of the strop, I looped the denim on itself so it would provide a "stop" on the metal clip I was going to use for my mounting hardware. I added some sandpaper to the clip to add more "adhesion" so the strop would not slip from the clip.




And the finished strop:


After some initial stropping on the denim and then leather and a shave, I am quite happy with the outcome. I plan on loading this strop with some diamond spray (0.125micron) and seeing how that affects my stropping.

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