I Should Have Made This YEARS Ago!

I Should Have Made This YEARS Ago! | Leather Strop Box

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I've been putting this project off for years now. I've been wanting a new strop. It needed to be bigger than the one I've been using and I wanted a way to keep the strop from getting covered in dust and shavings. I finally decided to build a new one. The design for this box was adapted from an oil stone box.
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0:00 Making a Strop Box
0:08 Milling Lumber
2:13 An Abandoned Inlay
5:44 Click Here to Skip
5:56 Carving the Feet
7:53 Cutting the Recesses
8:42 Forming the Backer
9:18 Cutting Box Molding by Hand
10:37 Finishing with Beeswax and a Polissoir
11:12 Preparing the Strop
11:42 About the Build
#sharpening #handtools #woodworking

Пікірлер: 25

@jeffreymilarsky3246 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful Eric!

@EricMeyerMaker 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@rollingstone3017 6 ай бұрын

Always fun to see what you come up with. Never thought of a fancy strop box, but now seems like a neat idea.

@EricMeyerMaker 6 ай бұрын

It was a lot of fun to make. If you give it a go let me know.

@walterplummer3808 6 ай бұрын

Outstanding! I have never seen one similar. Thanks.

@EricMeyerMaker 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@MCsCreations 6 ай бұрын

Really beautiful work, Eric! Brilliant idea! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

@EricMeyerMaker 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@TomBuskey 6 ай бұрын

I like the cutting board on the side of your plane. I did that to both sides of my low angle jack rabbet. Its great for shooting.

@EricMeyerMaker 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one!

@gabrielpoulain3619 6 ай бұрын

Hi, hello ! I just got a low angle rabbet plane myself and I would like to use it for shooting. I was thinking of ways to do this... did you attach a piece of cutting board to the side then? How did you attach it? I don't dare drill holes in the plane body...

@TomBuskey 6 ай бұрын

@@gabrielpoulain3619 There are already threaded holes for the fence in the LA Jack Rabbet. IIRC they're #10-32. I found flat head screws, I tried a cutting board but ended up using scraps of oak I planed to ~ 1/4" thivk

@ToolsandTime 6 ай бұрын

That came out excellent, nice work!

@EricMeyerMaker 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@memilanuk 4 ай бұрын

Very nice 👍 So you did all the shaping of the ogee on the lid with shoulder and block planes? No moulding planes? I've got a few oil stones that I need to batch out some cases like this for... guess one more for the strop wouldn't hurt 👍😉

@EricMeyerMaker 4 ай бұрын

No molding planes. I really want to get some, but I rarely would use them.

@memilanuk 4 ай бұрын

@@EricMeyerMaker I'd love to see some more detail video on the process... seems like the video kind of jumped from cutting the top rabbet to finishing touches on the curved section.

@pantelisnikolaou6956 6 ай бұрын

Beautifully made. What soort of leather have you used?

@EricMeyerMaker 6 ай бұрын

I bought some scrap. I believe it is cow. It was sold as 7 to 10 oz thickness.

@donniewillis2926 2 күн бұрын

Hi, new to hand tool woodworking. I know what the shoulder plane is. Now if you are using a "Jack Rabbet" plane I don't know the difference (yet!) and what are "cutting boards"? Sorry for all the questions.

@EricMeyerMaker 2 күн бұрын

Don't apologize! Great questions. 1) jack rabbet- I don't use a jack rabbit plane. But, a jack rabbet is a jackplane (Stanley no 5 for example) with a cutaway in the sides of the plane that exposes the sides of the plane blade. Like on a rabbet plane. Basically it's a large rabbet plane. 2) the cutting boards the other commenter is referring to is the plastic I added to the side of my Veritas jointer plane. That plane has a small step on the casting which prevents the plane from being used on its side. Adding that plastic made the side flat and increased the usability.

@donniewillis2926 Күн бұрын

@@EricMeyerMaker Thank you. One quick question as you opinion. I am getting ready to build one of 2 workbenches. Both would require mortise and tenons. Would you buy a shoulder plane or is a chisel and a block plane perfectly acceptable? The bench will be made entirely by hand tools. Thats why I ask.

@EricMeyerMaker Күн бұрын

@@donniewillis2926 IMO use the chisel and the block plane. The shoulder plane is a luxury item. Getting practice in with the chisel will carry over to pretty much every future project.