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- Sunday February 11, 2018
I've never made a hanging strop - can't help there.
I have made a few paddle strops when I was younger because it was the only way to get a strop before the Internet round where I lived.
With paddle strops I found that the leather itself didn't matter so much as the support. It was tricky getting a cheap unwarped truly flat piece of wood. One thing that worked was gluing a layer of balsa to the wood and lapping it flat on sandpaper then gluing thin leather to it.
Antique mahagony was best for the support and a layer of cork or rubber best between that and the leather.
I have made a few paddle strops when I was younger because it was the only way to get a strop before the Internet round where I lived.
With paddle strops I found that the leather itself didn't matter so much as the support. It was tricky getting a cheap unwarped truly flat piece of wood. One thing that worked was gluing a layer of balsa to the wood and lapping it flat on sandpaper then gluing thin leather to it.
Antique mahagony was best for the support and a layer of cork or rubber best between that and the leather.