Making a new strop.

I threw together my first strop, just to experiment and see how it went.  Of course, I really liked it.  The only problem was that I made it out of things I had laying around and it is a bit too narrow for some of my plane blades.  Time to make an improved version. 

I put a bit of thought into the design so it would function the way I wanted it to.  My first attempt was thwarted though.  Seems that piece of ash was tasty to some bug or another.  Oh well, nothing a trip to the shelf didn't fix and I found some maple instead.

I am pretty pleased with how it turned out.  It should serve a long time in keeping my blades keen.  I find that I strop more than I do any actual sharpening now.  I take less time, more often and give my blades a few swipes and keep them at their best.  This was the reasoning behind the design.  So it is always near at hand and ready for use in multiple ways.

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Bent lamination Guitar stand in Walnut and Ash part 3

Well, I got it all done. A little longer video, but I wanted to get to the end of it with this one while I was editing. Man, you wouldn’t believe the hours of footage NOT shown….lol. Anyway, the build was a fun one and I tried a couple of things I have never done before. My son in law likes his present and has his guitar on it now. Of course, mine got first ride because I had to video it in action. All in all, I like how it came out. Pretty close to what I had in my head, which is pretty good as I didn’t use any kind of plan, just followed the wood and the idea.

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Bent lamination guitar stand in Walnut and Ash 2

Here I am getting the base of the unit shaped out.  I just let the grain tell me where to cut more or less.  I am not working off plans, just letting the wood tell me what it needs.  This is not the first time for this piece of wood in a video.  This is the same piece I used in my Bosch 1250 DEVS sander video.  It came out of the firewood pile.  I think I am happy I saved it.

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