Ben Dale Says!

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beakman

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Greetings,

Was talking to him an the phone today and he said stropping only works on high carbon blades. He then said that was the way the old time barbers used to dry their high carbon straight razors back then.
So does this mean stropping will not be usefull on stainless. He said it will dull your blade.

Eric
 
You don't have to take anyone's word for it. Just strop one of your knives and see. hell, strop it on your jeans if you don't have a real strop. You'll see yourself your stainless gets sharper (more polished) if you do it right
 
I Know that Ben knows what he's talking about but I've had really good results stropping my sebbies. My personal experience is that careful stropping keeps my blades blistering sharp! YMMV.:eek: :) ;) :thumbup:
 
I am always surprised by how much stropping helps.

And, as Joe points out, even stropping on your jeans has an obvious effect. Especially if, like me, you are not quite as leet as you think and strop backwards.
 
beakman said:
So does this mean stropping will not be usefull on stainless.
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Use the right compound on the right backing and it will help, what Ben Dale is talking about is how people leave a large burr on thier edges and strop it off with mild buffing compounds. Yes, this does exactly what he says on the common high carbide stainless.

-Cliff
 
Cliff Stamp said:
Use the right compound on the right backing and it will help, what Ben Dale is talking about is how people leave a large burr on thier edges and strop it off with mild buffing compounds. Yes, this does exactly what he says on the common high carbide stainless.

-Cliff
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I intentionally left a burr and stropped it off (VG-10), and you could see massive tearing along the edge through my lighted microscope as I stropped it. After a while the edge started getting a little cleaner, but still not very good. When I had a cleanly formed edge and stropped it, you could see the scratch pattern tightening. This was with a CrO loaded strop. I want to get .5 micron diamond paste to use when I strop the high vanadium steels, as I hear it works much better than the CrO at cutting the very hard vanadium carbides.
 
Yeah, I reported the exact same behavior awhile ago, you should never use a strop to remove a burr like that. It only works on the really easy to grind steels.

-Cliff
 
Cliff Stamp said:
Yeah, I reported the exact same behavior awhile ago, you should never use a strop to remove a burr like that. It only works on the really easy to grind steels.

-Cliff
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I should have given you the credit in my post, because I had read your findings and wanted to see for myself how it looked under magnification. It was a little early in the morning here when I made the post, sorry about the oversight.
 
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