Strop Cover
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I recently purchased a set of stones and leather strops. I like some of the stands posted on the site and borrowed the ideas to make a stand. There is a lot of discussion about cross contamination of the strops. I made the covers shown out of PVC. Do you think this is adequate or do the strops need to be placed in a closed container?
I recently purchased a set of stones and leather strops. I like some of the stands posted on the site and borrowed the ideas to make a stand. There is a lot of discussion about cross contamination of the strops. I made the covers shown out of PVC. Do you think this is adequate or do the strops need to be placed in a closed container?
Bill, those are awesome. I 3D printed a set of covers one time that would require us to build a mold to have them mass produced and the cost seemed too much to make it worth it. I think this design could be extruded pretty easily and the die would be much cheaper. Nice idea, thanks for sharing it!
-Clay
Thanks. I am revising this post to reflect the final drawing. I found these dimensions work best. As discussed below I cut the initial slot on a table saw, setting the fence 3/16 inches from the blade. I ran the blank through once and turned it around and ran it through again so both shoulders are the same 3/16 inch. I set the blade height to 3/8 inches. The fence was moved away from the blade a distance less than the blade thickness and the blank was run through twice again. This is continued until all of the material is removed. I USED TWO PUSH STICKS. It is hard to sharpen knives if you are missing fingers! I used the T slot cutter to cut the 1/8 inch tall slot. I did this on a milling machine. I think a router could be set up to do the job but the cutter I described below has a 1/4 inch shank. I don’t know if most routers have that size collet.
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I made a new set of strop covers out of Delrin. I purchased a wood cutting T slot cutter that creates a 1/8 inch high slot. This was my original plan. They fit much nicer. I also made the slot 1 inch wide as opposed to 1.01 inches. Note that I cut the recess in the material with a table saw so the bottom is not smooth. This was much faster than milling it. I think if anyone out there has a router and a table saw they could make a set.
Because I don’t have a need for original set, I am selling my original set on eBay if anyone is interested. The title is Wicked Edge Strop Covers. Here is a link to the bidding:
<span style=”color: #000000; font-family: Arial;”>http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/272530142070?</span>
These are my new covers (which are not the ones for sale) and a photo of the T slot cutter I bought on amazon:
I labeled the covers as Alan suggested. My writing isn’t very good so I came up with another way to differentiate the fine and coarse covers. I made another set out of maple and walnut. They are finished with paste wax.
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