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- Thread starter miltmaldo
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'MDF' = Medium-Density Fiberboard
It's a wood product made from very finely-ground wood fibers, bound together with a resin. It's very smooth & flat, and makes a good stropping/honing substrate for use with compound. I'd also suggest giving it a try; it works well with diamond paste. You can find it at any of the big-box home centers, or wood/lumber yards.
David
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This type of strop is what i sometimes give to customers who regularly bring me a CRK or other quality knife for sharpening and/or some TLC, so they can maintain & keep the appearance of their new edge themselves for some time.
It's a new & cut-to-size piece of clean MDF coated with a thin layer of 1.0 micron (+/- 14000 grit) mono-diamond compound, and i put 4 self-adhesive rubber bumpers on the bottom.
These bumpers make the strop non-slip and they also elevate the working surface a bit more which makes the strop more convenient to use on a table (more room for your hands)
The placement on rubber feet also provides the user with acoustic feedback; you can actually hear when you're arriving at the very apex during stropping movements as the audible sound changes, which makes the stropping proces very easy, even for absolute beginners.
Due to the harder surface the chances of rounding your crisp apex are also greatly dimished when compared to stropping on compressible materials like leather.
The strop surface can also be cleaned from time to time with a microfiber cloth and some acetone, which will remove all or most of the swarf without removing the diamond particles as these become (partially) embedded in the MDF surface during the stropping proces.
The CRK Nyala used as a prop for the pictures was recently reprofiled (from 35-40 degrees inclusive to an even 30 degrees inclusive) & sharpened (with 15 micron diamond compound on a Paper Wheel) and will be picked up by it's owner somewhere in the coming weeks.
BTW: it's main purpose is to cut oranges, about 5 each day.
It's a new & cut-to-size piece of clean MDF coated with a thin layer of 1.0 micron (+/- 14000 grit) mono-diamond compound, and i put 4 self-adhesive rubber bumpers on the bottom.
These bumpers make the strop non-slip and they also elevate the working surface a bit more which makes the strop more convenient to use on a table (more room for your hands)
The placement on rubber feet also provides the user with acoustic feedback; you can actually hear when you're arriving at the very apex during stropping movements as the audible sound changes, which makes the stropping proces very easy, even for absolute beginners.
Due to the harder surface the chances of rounding your crisp apex are also greatly dimished when compared to stropping on compressible materials like leather.
The strop surface can also be cleaned from time to time with a microfiber cloth and some acetone, which will remove all or most of the swarf without removing the diamond particles as these become (partially) embedded in the MDF surface during the stropping proces.
The CRK Nyala used as a prop for the pictures was recently reprofiled (from 35-40 degrees inclusive to an even 30 degrees inclusive) & sharpened (with 15 micron diamond compound on a Paper Wheel) and will be picked up by it's owner somewhere in the coming weeks.
BTW: it's main purpose is to cut oranges, about 5 each day.
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