Thread: Making a paddle strop- Tutorial

Looks like some very nice work.
Did you find that the sandpaper left any embedded grit in the leather? If so, how did you get it out?

Originally Posted by randydance062449

Looks like some very nice work.
Did you find that the sandpaper left any embedded grit in the leather? If so, how did you get it out?

Randy, I did not dins any sand paper embedded in the leather.

Thanks for sharing this. I've sanded out leather nicks with 400 grit before, but it never occured to me that leather could be polished up so nicely by apply further grits. This post has inspired me to go back and redo some old repaired strops and possibly polish a few to experiment with draw characteristics. Thanks again.

My 9 year old daughter asked me again this morning if we can “do razors” – I’m very lucky that she likes to tinker with Dad in the garage. So I let her remove a few light nicks in my SRD Premium 1. She started with 400 grit sandpaper to remove the nicks and then progressed through the grits all the way through 2000. Then she used the micromesh and worked all the way through 12000. To blend everything smooth, I let her condition the entire strop with the micromesh, not just the repaired areas. The result is a functionally brand new strop! Thanks for the inspiration Mainaman (and thanks for the fun project idea for my daughter – she had a blast).

Originally Posted by diyguy

My 9 year old daughter asked me again this morning if we can “do razors” – I’m very lucky that she likes to tinker with Dad in the garage. So I let her remove a few light nicks in my SRD Premium 1. She started with 400 grit sandpaper to remove the nicks and then progressed through the grits all the way through 2000. Then she used the micromesh and worked all the way through 12000. To blend everything smooth, I let her condition the entire strop with the micromesh, not just the repaired areas. The result is a functionally brand new strop! Thanks for the inspiration Mainaman (and thanks for the fun project idea for my daughter – she had a blast).

Glad you found my tutorial useful.

Nice Job Stefan, Kind of short though...Ha....!

Originally Posted by zib

Nice Job Stefan, Kind of short though...Ha....!

Rich ,
it actually turned out to be a very good length for me.