Thread: Knife stropping

Originally Posted by Rushy

Don't you go bringing out any more of your B&D toys on here Savage1. This is a family show.

i knew of a guy who was into bondage, bestiality and necrophilia
i told him he was flogging a dead horse

Originally Posted by Savage1

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Just don't get one with the studs, they hurt like hell.

Standard issue for dealing with the naughty boys?

Originally Posted by gonetropo

i knew of a guy who was into bondage, bestiality and necrophilia
i told him he was flogging a dead horse

Very clever.

I have a double sided paddle strop from DLT knives in USA. Its the bark river one. I use lansky to sharpen the knives, then hone, then bark river black compound. Then change to the other side of the paddle, and use bark river green compound. If I sharpen a convex blade, I use 1500, 2000 wet n dry paper on a mouse pad, and then the strop compounds.

I recently made a strop using veg-tan leather ... one side flesh side up, one side flesh side down ... works a treat ... the flesh side down, just to finish off ...

Originally Posted by Cordite

There is still a role for the a traditional steel. The steel has the advantage of WORK HARDENING stainless steel edges.

Have a look at this geezer to get the gist:



Hope that is useful.

He seems to qualify his remarks about use i.e. not where it might get nicked etc. How useful is that skinning and boning deer. Just bought the new Scarysharp kit from Geoff at the Sikashow. We still have the original model pumping out sharp knives.His new future model looks even better. Quality NZ product.

Originally Posted by Savage1

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Just don't get one with the studs, they hurt like hell.

@SAVAGE what's that look like spelt backwards on you bum

i brought an old barbers strop from a junk store. it seems to take the fine burr off the back of my chisels after honing. makes a difference for sure. the apprentice tells me that they slice through nails so much easier now!

Just checking in to see how you got on with making the strop. I have just added leather to a stone holder and using that to finish knives off in the scary sharp system, seems to be working so far!

Originally Posted by Willie

Just checking in to see how you got on with making the strop. I have just added leather to a stone holder and using that to finish knives off in the scary sharp system, seems to be working so far!

Could you post a photo of that?

Evening everyone, have been doing a fair bit of sharpening on Japanese whetstones, but didn't get into stropping my knives as didn't have the gear. After finding this thread, I thought I'd give it a go. Ripped the lining out of a welding gauntlet and used the internal leather and that gave me a decent piece, albeit a little thin but did the trick. Stapled it onto a bit of matai floor board and good to go. I couldn't believe the difference after chucking a little autsol on it and giving my Svord Santoku a quick few strokes. Next level sharp and like a bloody mirror. Cheers chaps

Originally Posted by McNotty

Evening everyone, have been doing a fair bit of sharpening on Japanese whetstones, but didn't get into stropping my knives as didn't have the gear. After finding this thread, I thought I'd give it a go. Ripped the lining out of a welding gauntlet and used the internal leather and that gave me a decent piece, albeit a little thin but did the trick. Stapled it onto a bit of matai floor board and good to go. I couldn't believe the difference after chucking a little autsol on it and giving my Svord Santoku a quick few strokes. Next level sharp and like a bloody mirror. Cheers chaps

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Yeah man, amazing what a difference a few strokes on the old strop with do aye