Thread: How you hang your strops.

Just a heavy brass hook at a level just below my bent elbow. Gives me a horizontal stroke. Haven't changed the height since I put it in a few years back.

I keep others not in use, or being improved, or coming and going, on the back of the door.
~Richard
PS. I use a special oil and Pure neetsfoot to slowly renew a strop over a couple months. I use information found on line and in conversation with leather workers.

I would recommend trying out varoius heights before commiting to a hook location, just use a bit of string or similar and tie your strop to things at different heights around the house, or if you have a ladder just use the rungs to get a rough height.
I recently put an eye up in my bathroom to secure my strop to, but that was after a year of tying it to stuff and getting sick of keep having to undo knots whenever i had finished stropping. In my last house i used a hook that was attached to the back door, a good height but quite inconvenient.
My new eye is just below the towel rail in the bathroom so when it isnt in use we can pull a towel over it and you wouldnt even know it was there.

My bathroom has a vertical safety rail my the door way. I have a loop that can be moved up and down on it. To the loop I can attach the strop with a rotating clip. This way I can adjust the strop to ~ a 2ft variance in height while the strop can be removed to a dry location when not used.

Originally Posted by RezDog

If they are out of reach who gets them down for you?

Out of reach of SWMBO (4'11") and the grand kids,
damn my youngest is taller than me, no keeping out of reach of him LOL

This is a older thread but lots of ideas.
http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...eir-strop.html

My bath servant holds the other end for me, she's 6' 3".

haha s screw hidden underneath my desk, it falls off when not taught

Is the screw hidden under desk the 6'3" servant ???

You cheeky devil, Substance!

I wire tied a spring clip to the towel rack corner and on the strop side I use a carabiner to clip to the clip when I use it, and when Im done stropping I remove and clip & hang much higher on a wire shelf to keep people (namely me) from peeing on it, being so close to the toilet.