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mainaman Making a paddle strop-... 10-10-2011, 12:04 AM
mainaman After the 150 sand paper I... 10-10-2011, 12:13 AM
mrsell63 Stefan That's a very nice... 10-10-2011, 06:31 AM
randydance062449 Looks like some very nice... 10-10-2011, 08:13 AM
mainaman Randy, I did not dins any... 10-10-2011, 10:17 AM
mainaman hehe Jerry no, I just did not... 10-10-2011, 10:17 AM
jfleming9232 Excellent tutorial, Stefan. ... 10-29-2011, 01:47 AM
Morgoroth I know this is an old tread,... 11-07-2011, 06:38 PM
mainaman I used contact cement 11-07-2011, 07:51 PM
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    I have been planing to make a new paddle strop for a while now, and today I finally decided to do it. In the process I thought I'd take a few pics and post here for others to try if they want.
    This is not my first paddle strop. I made a similar one before, for it I used Latigo and felt to make it double sided paddle.
    For both strops I used Iwasaki's method of treating the leather to make it as smooth as possible.
    I wanted to make the new strop with horse hide, recently I got a nice big piece of 7oz horsehide from e-bay. I used one of the pieces from it for the paddle today.

    First I got a 3" wide piece of oak from Home depot and cut it to 3 feet length. Please be sure when you buy wood for paddle , that it is flat, wood with bow will not be very useful IMO.

    I cut a handle in the paddle and sanded lightly the surface that will meet the leather with a medium sandpaper sponge. After that I applied contact cement to both the leather(on the rough side) and the paddle:

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    The leather was wider and longer than the paddle , so I trimmed it to match.

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    The leather is untreated so it is not even, to correct this I use sandpaper progression.
    First I scuffed the strop with 400 sandpaper to show how many low spots it has:

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    To speed up the work on flattening the leather I use 150 grit sandpaper first. I use a wood block to wrap the sand paper around to make sure it is flat when sanding the surface of the strop.

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    Last edited by mainaman; 10-10-2011 at 12:19 AM.
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