Thread: paddle strop box

I came across this paddle strop box today and picked it up more because it was interesting than the condition.

Three sides of the box and drawer are made from sheet metal.

The razor has broken scales but scratched into the scales in three places along with a few less ineligible numbers is 1865.

Something to do with the end of the US civil war?

Thats blades a biggie. Nice find.

Nice find. The razor is cool and is that a dish on the end for strop compound?

Originally Posted by RezDog

Nice find. The razor is cool and is that a dish on the end for strop compound?

I thought the same thing. There is no residue in it though.

It almost strikes me as a re purposed pencil box. Wrap some leather around it?

Fun to me at least because it is different to me.

I have some book binding leather that would form very nicely around the box but how would that work for stropping?

I would think the stropping would be done on the outside of the larger piece.
As for recycling an old pencil tray, the old timers often made it themselves, made do, or did without. Necessity being the mother of invention, your theory makes perfect sense to me.

The larger piece is what I was calling the box.

The leather is all cut up cracked and old. Pretty thin leather almost like the book binding leather.

Originally Posted by 32t

I thought the same thing. There is no residue in it though.

It almost strikes me as a re purposed pencil box. Wrap some leather around it?

Fun to me at least because it is different to me.

I have some book binding leather that would form very nicely around the box but how would that work for stropping?

No, it was made that way. I have one like it.
~Richard

I have one as well. Mine has remnants of red paste in that little divot