Thread: Few Questions Before I Start Making My Strop

Good luck with this JP5. Looking forward to seeing the finished strop.

Went to Tandy Leather today and bought a pack of Chicago screws and 2" D rings. I wanted to use Conchos, but I had to buy a 10pk of D rings and I'm trying not to invest too much in it. I'll post pics when I finish it.

You can Dye the end caps with leather dye any color you want. Here’s a photo of a wooden slicker, I have a nylon one, that look exactly like a plastic wheel from a sliding screen door…

The edge dressing they sell to form the edges smells & feels just like hide glue. So probably some watered down white glue would work just as well.

You wet the edge with the dressing and rub the edge with the slicker, it rounds the edge and the dressing glues the fibers smooth in the rounded shape.

I’d give a scrap piece a try, with a wheel from Home Depot, though the slickers are not that expensive.

Thanks for the advice and the pictures of the caps before they were folded.
I'm probably going to make a basic strop without anything fancy for now and see how I like it. If it works really well I might work on the edges more, but for now I'll just try and make it usable. The less I spend on this strop, the more money I'll have to spend on a professional made one, or have work done on my other razors.

Well, I got the strop and caps cut out. I have drilled some of the holes out (don't have a punch) and the end caps are drying folded in half. It isn't going to be very pretty and the screws won't be perfectly spaced, but it should be functional when I through. I tried not to worry too much about the cosmetic details or I would have ended up spending way too much time on it and probably bought leather tools I would barely ever use.
So far, pretty much all the work has been done with a X-Acto knife, cordless drill w/ a bad battery, square, and framing level (as a straight edge).