Favorite Knife Compound for Stropping

[timnelson]

I am looking for ideas for what compound I should get for stropping so what is your favorite compounds that you use?

 

[jc57]

What kind(s) of steels are you stropping? What stropping substrate (hard leather, soft leather, soft wood, hard wood, paper)?

For basic steels I just use some green Porter-Cable PCPC5 that I bought at the hardware store for under $3 rubbed into the back of a (relatively) firm leather belt.

I also use some Hand American 1u diamond spray on balsa wood.

 

[timnelson]

Steels include 440c, VG 10, s30v, sandvik 14c28n, and s35vn. Substrate is hard leather.

 

[DeadboxHero]

I love the Bark River White compound

 

[Wowbagger]

This
https://www.amazon.com/Herbs-Yellowstone-Honing-Stropping-Compound/dp/B008PES2JY

It is the fastest cutting and produces the best edge in a number of different blade materials from box knife blades to A-2

Better than green better than white better than semi chrome paste . . . perhaps not better than the finest diamond paste , what is it half micron or there a bouts . . . suppose there is finer but is a PITA and you need to use it on a hard strop . . .

Now that we got that out of the way . . .
Get a Shapton 8000 or 15000 Pro stone and a jig an never look back.

 

[HeavyHanded]

Steels include 440c, VG 10, s30v, sandvik 14c28n, and s35vn. Substrate is hard leather.

Flexcut Gold is one of the best commercial compounds out there.

S30v is going to be at the top end or just beyond what aluminum oxide compounds can work. Diamond lapping film is also a good option for higher vanadium content steels.

Much depends on the level of finish you're looking for, the reclaimed mud from a silicon carbide stone works very well on leather, smeared on a piece of soft wood, or on a sheet of paper over a stone.

 

[115Italian]

I use 1 micron diamond paste on leather

 

[oldtymer]

Piece of denim from the leg of a pair of jeans on a block of wood with some Mothers Mag rubbed in.

 

[cbwx34]

Flexcut Gold. I bought one of their strops 'cause it was so cheap... now I use that compound on just about everything that needs compound. Works great! :thumbup:

 

[dlong]

Now that we got that out of the way . . .
Get a Shapton 8000 or 15000 Pro stone and a jig an never look back.

Jig? wouldn't that need to match the angle already applied to the edge by freehand technique? I'd like to learn more.