How Many of You Cats Use a Strop? Let's See 'Em...

[beckerhead]

Here's my BK7 snuggled up to one of my strops.

 

[Guyon]

I'll try to take some strop pics with Beckers. This is all I have in the Photobucket.

 

[FAL'ER]

I'm constantly stropping as I use my blades. I try not to let them get so dull that a strop won't get it where I want it to be.

 

[John G]

Here's one I made.

 

[5.56]

I use a Mr2blue custom walnut strop

 

[NixKustoms]

I'd rather not post a pic of mine. It's pretty damn ugly, but it works.

 

[beanbag]

I've got a set from Mr2blue in bubinga. IMHO he makes the best strops out there. The large one has the Bark River Black compound on it, and the smaller one has the green. For speedier stropping I've also got a leather belt for my 1"x30" belt sander. That sucker puts a nice polished edge on the old BK-9.

 

[Bladite]

I'll try to take some strop pics with Beckers. This is all I have in the Photobucket.

i need me one of those adjustable strops. i have the parts for one... never get around to make one.

 

[BluesStringer]

I cut a piece of a funky home-made guitar strap off and glued it to a piece of 1" x 3" board to make my strop. So, in essence, it's a "guitar strop." (Groan) Anyway, I use Dico white buffing compound and it works great.

 

[Quarter Tank]

and my homemade strop with 180 grit

 

[HeavyHanded]

Here's a few of 'em and the block I do my wet/dry convexing and V grind. Marks on the block are quick reference for bevel angles. The real gnarly strop is 60- grit _doesn't get much use, the rest are 120, 220, 600, 1200 silicone carbide powder. I apologize for the off brands - a buddy was over and he dropped some of his knives on the bench...

 

[paperairplane]

Visualize an old belt glued to a board - that's what I'm rocking. I don't really strop my BKT's much. They get time on the AK stone if they need it and a few passes on the ceramic to keep them sharp. I don't try to get my BK2 crazy sharp...

 

[DerekH]

Picked a couple of these up for $1.99 at Sally Beauty Supply this afternoon for my knives. 1 1/8" wide, 5" long, by about 3/16" thick overall. Plastic backed sanding sponge, in approximately somewhere between 320-400 grit. Works very well.

 

[Guyon]

Picked a couple of these up for $1.99 at Sally Beauty Supply this afternoon.

You get your blonde extensions and tan-in-a-can too?
Maybe this weekend, I'll get some strops made up.
Bought the rest of the ingredients the other day.

 

[Bladite]

the big hotness at Blade 2011 was someone who put grit (spray grit?) on a balsa wood slab and used just that

was expecting to run across that myself, but didn't. as well, the Edge Pro was not represented there, though ghods know, everything else was; even Smokey Mountain doesn't carry them. dammit.

 

[dingobubba]

I have one of those barber strops I got years ago when I was in a straight razor phase. Think I need to dig it out and give it a go.

 

[Bladite]

i also hear it said that cats make good strops

 

[tradewater]

Picked a couple of these up for $1.99 at Sally Beauty Supply this afternoon for my knives. 1 1/8" wide, 5" long, by about 3/16" thick overall. Plastic backed sanding sponge, in approximately somewhere between 320-400 grit. Works very well.

These work very well indeed. Thanks for the tip. There will be a couple of these in my pack.

 

[GingivitisKahn]

Where are you guys getting your strop compound? Does everyone buy online or is there some local source of which I'm not aware?

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Beckerhead #42

 

[beckerhead]

Mibro is the brand name I use, I get mine a Tractor Supply stores. It runs by cap color or number 1=coarse, yellow cap, black compound, 6=super fine, red cap, green compound, with an asst. between. I normally just use the #6 most of the time.