I have sharp but I want sharper.

[db]

I agree with both Knife Outlet and Unit. In fact you can get that killer sharp edge with a Spyderco medium ceramic bench hone. In fact if your not careful you'll dull an edge with a strop and polish off the edge. Everyone always talks about useing higher and higher grits to polish and I was on that wagon at one time myself. After alot of sharpening different ways and useing different grits I've come to believe you don't need half as much stuff as most people think. Get the edge thin and even a Spyderco medium bench hone will polish that edge to a unbeleivable sharpness.

 

[cj65]

Medium Density Fiberboard, actually. If it were multi density it wouldn't work for beans. And that is precisely my issue with using paint stir sticks with compound on it. It is such poor quality wood that it is, in some spots on some sticks, multi density. It is not consistently hard, smooth, or flat enough to work as well as MDF, leather, rock hard felt, or legal pad cardboard backing. From what I've seen (but not actually used), large size tongue depressors would be better suited to taking compound, as they are of a better and more consistent finished surface. Afterall, they end up on people's tongues, whereas paint sticks only need to be finished enough so that splinters don't break off into the paint it's stirring.

Thanks for the check.:thumbup: It has been over a decade since I worked at the Home Depot. I wonder how long I have been saying multi.

 

[KarlMaldensNose]

I agree with both Knife Outlet and Unit. In fact you can get that killer sharp edge with a Spyderco medium ceramic bench hone. In fact if your not careful you'll dull an edge with a strop and polish off the edge. Everyone always talks about useing higher and higher grits to polish and I was on that wagon at one time myself. After alot of sharpening different ways and useing different grits I've come to believe you don't need half as much stuff as most people think. Get the edge thin and even a Spyderco medium bench hone will polish that edge to a unbeleivable sharpness.

I agree... even though at the moment I'm knee-deep in leather, felt, MDF, cardboard, diamond sprays and chromium oxide products. But if you do go with a strop, both of those you linked to would be nice. The four sides will give you lots of convenient options in tems of finishing grit and materials to charge the leather with. Although, I have no idea what the leather is like. But that really doesn't matter too much if you load it with compound, and since they're both from reputable comapanies within the industry, I'm sure they are of excellent quality.