Thread: Best position for hanging your strop.....

I think it's a matter of preference and what is convienant. I like my strop to be level or angled down. These fit both my preferences and what is convienant for me. Barbers usually had their strops hanging on chairs or counters - I cannot know because I don't have lots of oldschool barbers to ask, but I would guess this was what was convienant for them and a reflection of their preferences.

I think that all the different responses by members in this thread suggests that the position of the strop doesn't matter, so long as you are comfortable with it.

This thread has me wondering if there is an angle that promoted better technique. Based on the anatomy of the wrist and hand, there may be an advantage to having it angled a particular direction. ie handle below attachment or vice versa. It may turn out that perfectly horizontal may be the best, but I doubt that. My instinct says that having the handle below the attachment will be easier on the wrist, but it could be because that's how I use mine now We have some anecdotal evidence to support this. All the posters on this thread that talk about fathers, grandfathers, uncles, etc say they had it attached high up. I haven't heard of a whole lot of people saying they mount the strop low and then have it slope up to the handle end. I suspect we all naturally gravitate towards having the strop slope down towards the handle just because it's more comfortable.

Of course, this still means that it doesn't matter much, and you should mount it however you like best