Thread: Beginner strop on the cheap

I second the whipped dog motion. I picked up one of Larry's poor man strops when I started straight razor shaving (I think you can get one for less than $15) and I still use it. In fact if it ever wears out, I think I'd get another one since it's such a terrific strop. I doubt it'd ever wear out though.

Nice recommendations. I have an SRP strop, but I might pick up a Whipped Dog to use while I still work on my technique.

FWIW I've heard people have good results using old jeans instead of buying a cotton strop. Take some old jeans, grab SWMBO's sewing machine and get to work.

Maybe stitch some jeans to some felt then glue the felt to the other side of the board?

Thats what I did too. Its easy! For a hanging leather strop, buy scrap piece of leather, cut it to desired length, add a d ring to top of strop and rectangle "ring"? to bottom. easy as pie. take a look at some images from google to help in the design. For a Denim paddle strop I used an old pair of jeans, I upholstered it to a
1 x 6 board, because its what I had in the garage, then stapled the denim to the back of the board, if youve ever reupholstered a chair its the same thing ... I made 2, one is use with crox... Theyre very ugly to look at but do a great job. I'll see if I can post some pictures later. Good Luck

I'm glad to see that you didn't even mention those $15.00 strops you see on ebay. The alternative methods you're looking at are probably the way to go until you can afford a decent one.