Thread: Homemade Strop

Hello men, I was wondering about strop matierial for the linen part of a strop. I did not know it but just today after taking my son to his driving test I saw that we have a Tandy store here in Kennewick. I went in and found some nice leather in thier scrap ben and am going to make a better strop than the one I have in the morning. I want to make a linen strop also and have carharts and blue jeans to give thier lives for my project and was hoping for advice on which would work best. I have looked and seen in the posts about blue jeans and have not seen much on the carhart idea and just thought I would ask before hacking them up. Thanks for any comments
Glenn

You might also consider using an automobile seatbelt which means a trip to the junkyard............

If you have a fabric store by you, like "Joann's, you may find something heavy you can use as a fabric component. The seatbelt is a good idea....

Tandy is great, isn't it...I've been there myself. I got nice piece of leather 3"w x 50" L I made a couple of paddles....Good stuff...

Here is my try at the leather part of it.

Just finished the denim, now I all thats left is to use em and try not to hack them up

Looks good my friend. Now to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Absolutely great effort on your strops and the neat part is that you will be more appreciative of these strops than you would of a store-bought strop. Pat yourself on the back and strop carefully.

Those look great. I did the same thing basicly with my homemade strops. A nice cowhide that I have finally broken in and a denim that I was lucky enough to have my MIL who is a seamstress put together for me since I don't know my way around a sewing machine. They work great and I hope yours do the job for you.

Those look really good and should give you many years of service. Nice work.

There's nothing like using something you made with your own hands, and seeing it work well