Thread: Making a paddle strop- Tutorial

After the 150 sand paper I continued with 220, 400, 600





After 600 I go to 800, 1000, 2000 grit.
Here I use a wet towel on the leather prior to using the sand paper. This allows for less loading of the sand paper. I should have done this starting from 400 grit , but it worked fine this way too.

800 grit



1000 grit



2000 grit



As you can see this becomes very highly polished leather surface:



From the pics it is obvious there is a low spot left that I have to get rid of , but it will not affect the stropping. I have to redo the finish to get the surface smoother, but even like that it will work fine, I just am a bit OCD so I'll redo it soon.

Maintenance of the paddle.
After some use there will be metal particles left on the surface of the strop



The maintenance is very simple just go back to 1k and 2k sand paper and recondition the surface.

Here are my two paddle strops:



Those smoothed surfaces produce great edge on a razor, they work extremely well on Kamisori in my experience.

Hope this is helpful for those that want to make their own paddle strop.