Thread: Long strop vs shorter strop

Any thoughts to the differences in lengths..some are 21" and some 17"

PcDad

No difference to me. I can strop on the palm of my hand which is much smaller than a 17" strop. Paddle strops can be small too & they work just fine.

The reason why I am asking is I have a left hand injury from birth and had a strop but always had either an issue with holding the strop's handles or too much pressure in different parts on the strop..I read an article that said they were easier to handle and strop vs the hanging versions
Why do the paddle strops seem pricier than the hanging ones?

PcDad

Originally Posted by pcdad

The reason why I am asking is I have a left hand injury from birth and had a strop but always had either an issue with holding the strop's handles or too much pressure in different parts on the strop..I read an article that said they were easier to handle and strop vs the hanging versions
Why do the paddle strops seem pricier than the hanging ones?

PcDad

No reason you can't use a paddle rather than a hanger.
I think price is relative. An $89 SRD paddle is less exe than a Kanayama hanger.

pcdad,

I use paddle strops almost exclusively for my stropping.

This led me to think about how I could get a hanger to have some of the best features of a paddle.

So I did some playing about with hanging tsrops and their lengths last year, and ended up having a doube hanging strop made by Mr Neil Miller that had a 13" stropping bed.

This strop worked extremely well

I believe that shorter stropping lengths (which can of course be used on a longer strop) are easier for newbies to perfect their technique.

My thought was to make the perfect newbie strop; torsionally rigid, and of short bed length with glued double leather construction. It sort of worked, but you needed super-human strength to tension the strop, and the leathers kept separating. I use it as a conventional two leather hanger now

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

When I had my longer hanging strops I would hold it taught with my left hand but when I would go ahead with stropping...I ended up after a few months when I first started out with the middle area of the strop and if it looked like too much pressure in the middle (shiny wax look like marks)..make sense?..any ideas where I could get a cheaply priced paddle which would suffice?

PcDad

With an injury hampering your movement perhaps a Bench Strop that requires NO involvement of your weak hand would be the best for you....

Something like this

http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...trop-hone.html

The 24 in length on these makes for a nice long even stroke and return so that the amount of laps would also be reduced... As you can see from the thread they are rather easy to make yourself

I can hold strops between my fingers and pull fine..but there is a size difference between my left n right hand..so i think my mind mis measures what my hands are doing i think...how much would one of these cost?

PcDad

I think Glen's concept would suit you perfectly & cost to build is minimal.

Originally Posted by pcdad

Any thoughts to the differences in lengths..some are 21" and some 17"

PcDad

Originally Posted by pcdad

I can hold strops between my fingers and pull fine..but there is a size difference between my left n right hand..so i think my mind mis measures what my hands are doing i think...how much would one of these cost?

PcDad

Every man has a different sized strop. It's all a matter of playing with the length you got. Using whichever hand feels best IMHO...


Mick