Quote Originally Posted by greatgoogamooga View Post
I'd like to try a CrO strop and bought a latigo replacement piece from SRD for this purpose. When I got it it was just TOO nice and I'm having second thoughts about smearing this beautiful piece of leather with green gook.

How about making the poor man's canvas strop out of a pair of jeans for this purpose? Will that suffice? If not, how about a chunk of balsa? Pakistani ebay special? My wife's favorite linen table cloth? (honestly, Honey, the girl must have spilled that split pea soup)

Goog
A poor man's canvas strop on wood....
Snag a bit of wood about half an inch thick
more than two inches wide and less than four
about two feet long. Find a like size bit of
canvas or denim at a fabric store and glue
the fabric to the wood with contact cement
(or wrap the wood and staple on the back).
An old pair of blue jeans that are going to
be cut off for shorts yields one leg for
strop fabric and one leg to make a sandbag
for the range or camera tripod.