carlsberg dont make knife strops.....

but if they did they'd be a little like this one! lol

fancied making something this evening for a bit of fun and i decided on making a new strop,wood backed with an antler handle.

so heres the raw materials,a nice bit of English yew and a red deer horn from an Exmoor stag that met with an untimely end ....but thats another story!


and heres the job done:






now a strop as this deserves better than jewellers rouge or toothpaste for a compound so i managed to aquired some 60micron diamond cutting paste:


apply just a little:


and this stuff cuts well! razors edge in just a few strops of the knife.


thanks for looking.

 

Nice job fish!

 

Very nice. My strop has always just been the back of an old belt, but now that I have seen this..........