Bought some leather - made a strop

Alum of Potash said:

Don't mean to take this off-topic, yours looks like a nice piece and I would love to cut myself some horse-hide and play around with it some day. I hold the end with what I think is called the "barber's grip." There, the fingers cross over the stropping surface at the end and curl around the far edge and the thumb curls around the near edge. For my sample size of exactly one off-hand, 2-1/2" wide seems a comfortable fit, 2" a bit narrow, and 3" just a little bit too wide. Of course, one can prefer what one wants, and 3" seems to be the preference; but there, I think the grip may be different (thinking of a handle here). As the trend moves this way, I can only bemoan that more and more strop makers only seem to be selling 2" and 3" models, whereas 2-1/2" was a favored width in days gone by.

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