Thread: What types of strange material?

Well that's the question,what types of strange material have you found to work great for a strop that adds that extra something? Me personally found that denim works better than my canvas strop.

Been using a piece of seatbelt as a pasted strop for about 6-7 months now...it works great!

Well if you get stopped by a cop and he asks where's your seatbelt, just say, Oh my shaving belt, that's at home. LOL.

Never tried a seatbelt as a strop but was thinking about, now I'll have to give it a shot.

seatbelt works as a canvas strop well so does taking a piece of jean material aka denium and rubbing in some wood ash really well prferably the blck leftover cucnks just grind them right into the material. it addes some draw and some micro honing all at ones for a nice smooth edge.

I I know it's not unusual material, but I used to have a rolled up sheet of leather about 12X12 and would use it like a travel strop. It worked well, but you definitely had to use an "x" stroke and watch out for the toe of the blade.

Never used one, but I ran across a porpoise leather strop at a swap meet a couple weeks ago. I really regret not buying it. It was completely unusable, but it was an oddity.

A while ago I experimented with using kevlar as the fabric componant of my strop and it worked great. Only problem was that it wore through after about 20 stroppings.

This doesn't really fit perfectly with your OP. But I remember a guy saying he used to rub his strop on his dogs back once a week or something like that. I thought that was pretty unique. lol.

The only thing unique I used was one of the straps of a military dufflebag. I used it because it was the same as a seatbelt, which I'd read was ok to use. I only did it a couple times, before I bought a real linen component, because I was too new to really know what the heck I was doing, or whether or not my experiment was working or if I was just getting lucky. AH well, as far as I know, it worked...

i bought a new guitar strap a couple days ago, not a massive expensive one, just a spare. went back the next day and bought another. great fabric component!

if you want to experiment with different abrasives seatbelt material is easy to come by.. just go to an autowrecker and explain that all you need is the fabric, not they entire mechanism, and that you can cut it out of the wreck yourself. they shouldnt ask too much for them, and if they do, talk em down .. i got a bunch for free at one scrap yard that didnt specialize in selling used autoparts.