Anyone ever add leather to a Diafold?

[mcmc]

Hi - one of my Diafolds is single-sided (the Extra Coarse one) - has anyone ever glued a strip of leather to one side of their Diafold for a portable strop?

 

[dr_fosg8]

Sounds like a good idea. Is there room to fit leather and still be foldable?

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

Sounds like a good idea. Is there room to fit leather and still be foldable?

I'd bet the handles wouldn't close with the extra thickness of leather on the hone.

Having said that, a single thickness of paper wrapped (temporarily) over the interrupted-surface hone will do a decent job as a strop, to knock burrs off. Add a little compound of your choice to the paper, for more refinement or polish. In fact, I'd personally view a thinner piece of paper on the hard backing to be a better alternative for stropping, rather than compressible leather.

If wanting something more permanent, a thin piece of linen (shirt, bedsheet, etc) with compound works very well as a strop, and might also be thin enough to fold the handles closed on the Dia-Fold. I personally wouldn't want to give up a diamond honing surface for the sake of the strop, though (assuming a double-sided Dia-Fold).

Don't have a single-sided Dia-Fold myself, so I don't know if there's additional room inside the handles for the leather, on those models. Vendor pics of the single-sided models appear to show they're the same overall thickness as the double-sided versions, so I'd bet there still isn't room. Taking a close look at my double-sided Dia-Folds, there's only perhaps a single thickness of paper in free space above the hone, inside the handle.


David

 

[mcmc]

David, interesting suggestions! I'd heard of compound on paper and cloth, but never have actually tried.

The space you'd get, is the actual nickel substrate - I was also thinking of lapping the (delrin? some kind of resin) backing material so as to allow for more room. I think I could definitely fit cloth to it - thinking maybe a VHB type of tape.

I just wanted something in the field that I could use to help maintain the semi-convex, semi-mirror edge of my CRK's. I use my double-sided F/EF on my M4 Ritter Grips, but wanted a better solution for the CRK's if possible.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

David, interesting suggestions! I'd heard of compound on paper and cloth, but never have actually tried.

The space you'd get, is the actual nickel substrate - I was also thinking of lapping the (delrin? some kind of resin) backing material so as to allow for more room. I think I could definitely fit cloth to it - thinking maybe a VHB type of tape.

I just wanted something in the field that I could use to help maintain the semi-convex, semi-mirror edge of my CRK's. I use my double-sided F/EF on my M4 Ritter Grips, but wanted a better solution for the CRK's if possible.

The linen with some diamond compound might work pretty well for the CRK knives. I have a Sebenza in S30V, and have used Dia-Paste (3/1µ) on wood to strop it. The tiny bit of convex on the CRK bevels can easily be maintained that way, even on a 'hard' strop like wood, or fabric over wood.

I have an older and somewhat worn Dia-Fold (C/F) that I haven't used much lately, as I have another identical one in better shape. I might even experiment with a piece of linen on the older one, with the diamond compound, and see how that works...


David

 

[mcmc]

Awesome David, do please try it, and let me know how it goes =)