My 1st home made hanging strop
I currently have a 3" starter strop from Neil Miller but I find that I prefer a narrower strop as it makes me do an X stroke. I found on Ebay a sources of 2" bridle leather, cotton webbing and square ended trigger clips. I have a wood turning lathes and loads of wood offcuts so I thought I would make handles from wood.
Well today was construction day. Alas the motor on my lathe died while making a 2nd handle so I have not made the cotton one, for which I shall now order a D ring, and complete in a few days time.
The leather I received was finished on both sides, which is something I had not expected.
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Having turned the handle and attached it to a block with a slot cut I cut the strap of leather to length, I decided that I wanted to sand one side of the leather to give 2 textures, I then cut a small piece of leather to attach it to the trigger hook. I borrowed a stitch marker from my wife and used an awl to mark the holes then drilled 2 of them out, tied everything together then drilled out the rest. I then stitched everything together.
I then glued the leather into the slot which I had cut to size and popped on a couple of panel pins for good measure.
This being the end result (top is the front bottom is the back)
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Width and length seem good for me and the draw is different on the front and back but both seem good. I think that I will strop some on the back then finish on the front.