Thread: My second homemade strop attempt

I just finished putting together my second homemade strop. All the parts for this were sourced locally. The leather was from an unused piece of old belting for a mill or factory of some sort. I got a few of these sections in a roll at a barn sale but only one was still unused. I cleaned it, treated it over several days with a little neetsfoot oil, and worked it with my hands to limber it up. The linen came from an old fire hose I found at a local flea market. I cleaned it over several days of soaking and rinsing, cut it to length, then sealed the ends with superglue to prevent unraveling. To make the hole for the hardware I superglued a spot first then when that was dry drilled a hole through. The hardware came from the same flea market off a broken old strop. I used a wood burning tool to embellish the leather a bit just for fun. The "520" was just some number that happened to be stamped on this particular section. Not too bad for homemade I guess

Very nice & thanks for all the photos.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Very nice & thanks for all the photos.

Thanks, Hirlau. I got some of the ideas and methods from something you posted a while ago so thanks for sharing about that before, it helped me out with this - especially cleaning the linen.

It's great to see those items re purposed for a nice looking strop.

Awesome job!

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Looks good

I especially like your markings. I hope it works as good as it looks.

Nicely done!

Nice work. It looks very nice indeed.

Excellent "branding", a strop to be proud of, well done.