Edger Strop my way.

[Sanch]

Okay so I decided to go ahead and make a new strop for my Jeremiah Watt edgers and decided why not make a tutorial of sorts here it is to include pictures.

1. Get some scrap leather I used 8 to 9 oz for what I'm doing here you can use whatever you find suitable cut it to quarter inch width straps about 13 in Long.

2. Find a suitable piece of wood to glue the strips to using contact cement of your choice. In my case I just use the old strop backing board. I drew three lines  parallel with each other  and the board  on it  just so I knew where to place my glue and my leather strips . 

3. After the strip is glued in place and the glue sets I ran the edge bevelers along the edges beveling them the way I needed for each respective size. The picture shows a number 1  size . 

4. Once all of the edges are beveled accordingly I use neat's-foot oil to wet the leather strips.

 5. Load the strips with green Jeweler's Rouge. The oil helps the loading process as well as helps to lubricate.

Finally here is the strop. As you can see I wrote on it with a sharpie the sizes from 0 through 4. The first strip is only for 0, the subsequent 2 strips are as numbered the middle one is for size 1 and 2, the third one is for size 3 and 4.

I hope this helps someone out if you have any questions feel free to ask.

[zuludog]

Very good! I'm about to make a board similar to this, or that shown by lb custom knives and others on YouTube. I'll be using a bamboo kebab skewer; some densely braided nylon cord;  a strip of leather; and some very fine grit Micro Mesh abrasive paper

[Sanch]

2 hours ago, zuludog said:

Very good! I'm about to make a board similar to this, or that shown by lb custom knives and others on YouTube. I'll be using a bamboo kebab skewer; some densely braided nylon cord;  a strip of leather; and some very fine grit Micro Mesh abrasive paper

My tools came ready to use. No need for any abrasives other than rouge on the strips,  which are flexible and will not deform the edge of the tools.  The method you speak of will be great to "sharpen" a dull tool.   

[alpha2]

I'm no rouge expert by any means, I only have the Tandy white rouge that came with my beginners kit years ago. What is the advantage of the green, or any other color?

[Sanch]

On 12/19/2017 at 6:47 PM, alpha2 said:

I'm no rouge expert by any means, I only have the Tandy white rouge that came with my beginners kit years ago. What is the advantage of the green, or any other color?

Different colors indicate different grits and also can indicate different materials that they are to be used on for example there is a blue Rouge that is primarily used on Plastics. For our purposes generally speaking white and or green are fine to use or such has been my experience.