thanks man!
Nice, thanks for sharing this with us!
you're welcome, thanks. I had fun doing this
Nice job zyhano. Does the DMT paste work good on and last on leather? I thought you were to use it on hard wood. That's what I have been using and I just don't like the way it feels while stroping. I would much rather use leather.
thanks, I see in your next posts that the leather worked just fine :thumbup:
Knifenut has a lot of good stuff to tell about hardwood. I haven't used paste on wood, only Cr2O3 and have used it on chisels, that worked fine. I'll be trying it out on wood later this year, I have enough on my hands already
Great job! Very informative.
thanks JD
Very nice
Prime, balsa will give you a similar feel to leather and still keep the compound working fast. Using it on leather will slow it down some and make its finish finer.
thanks knifenut. I'll just stick to the leather then... any reason why I definitely should try out wood?
Great compilation zyhano.
thanks my man!
I couldn't find any balsa in my area and I have some leather left over from making my other strops so I guess I'll try this way. My understanding is that the DMT paste doesn't dry into the leather. So how do you store your strops when not in use? Do you put them in plastic bags like DMT suggests with hardwood strops?
No bags for me, I do store them in a relatively dust free environment and make sure to keep them clean. If there is dirt on it, you're fingers can easily feel it, there are a LoT of nerves in your fingers...
OMG! I made some new strops using zyhano's method for my DMT paste and got way better results much faster than with hardwood. Maybe it's just the way I strop. But this is what I did to my Insingo.
Hair doesn't stand a chance.
That's great, I actually inspired someone hehehe, nice job prime77
Cool, thanks for sharing!
you're welcome friend
Great job and great post.
Love the many pictures you made.
I need to buy some leather and try making my own!
Yeah, it was a spur of the moment thing. Had a good time and when I took the first picture I just thought "what the heck, let's do this as good as I can"
thanks :thumbup:
That looks great.
Did you hit the diamond stones first and, if so, what order did you progress through, including the paste?
Hey peppercorn, I know you asked prime77, but here is something I wrote about going throught the grits, you might find it informative:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=769089 It's about getting a hinderer xm-18 hair whittling sharp.
Funny. I just made my first one last night. I thought I read somewhere NOT to glue it to the wood. Something about allowing the leather to stretch while stropping?
Yeah, that's by Nozh2002. He prefers it like that. It's just what you prefer. wood with glued leather, not glued, hanging, doesn't matter because you can get the same results on all of them.
Which side of the leather are you using? I always thought it was the more raw, unfinished side, and not the smooth side.
On my stop, similar to yours i use the inside, with green chromium. The more I use it, its starting to form like little balls or tiny little spots that stick up where my edge sometimes catches. Sometimes i purposely let the edge catch pushing in, so i know i have reached the correct blade angle. Then i start my stroke pulling away.
thanks Ross, I experimented with both. I found the fluffy feel of the rough side nice, but I had some buildup of leather and gunk on it. Sometimes I found the smooth side feel a little bit too hard.
Since I like the slick feel (after all, it has too be enjoyable too) I started to rough up the leather with fine grit sandpaper (600+) to make it just a little velvety.
Nice write up. I think I have been convinced to try the diapaste.
Good thing. I was swayed by knifenut. It was a good advice I think.
thanks all of you for the compliments, much appreciated. Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
I'm off to do some stropping dudes
