I keep hearing good things about this Diamond spray with different microns and how amazingly sharp it can make your knife. I wanna try it out sometime but I also wanted to know if you only use it when after your done sharpening on a stone? or whenever you feel like getting the knife sharp. can it be used as a way to lightly touch up your knife without removing more metal than a stone? I want a good way to touch up without shredding metal off the knife. does anyone know what type of strop to use with these sprays? I keep hearing a basa wood strop is the best choice so im not sure. but mainly I wanna know more about it and quick ways to keep my knife sharp without removing so much metal. Thanks
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Is using the Diamond Micron Sprays to touch up a knife bad?
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Stropping is ideal for in between sharpenings. Diamond spray, news paper, chromium oxide, etc. I use balsa wood (easy to make and dirt cheap) and chromium oxide. I strop my EDC once a week maybe? I sharpen them almost never if they are super steels like M390 or ZDP or 204P. Stropping will make you look at maintaining a sharp knife in a whole new light.
Leather or balsa wood are super popular as is news paper. None require a solution or spray to work but it does make it faster on wear resistant steels. News paper is a great way to get started.
Leather or balsa wood are super popular as is news paper. None require a solution or spray to work but it does make it faster on wear resistant steels. News paper is a great way to get started.
how would you use news paper as a strop? and my knife has ZDP-189 steel, what do you mean by it makes it faster on wear resistant steels?
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ZDP-189 is a very wear-resistant steel, with LOTS of carbon and chromium to make hard chromium carbides. Both vanadium carbides and chromium carbides are associated with high wear-resistance in blade steel, with the vanadium carbides being tougher (think of S30V, for example).
Newspaper can be wrapped around a bench hone or block of wood, and the compound applied to the paper. That's usually how it's used for stropping.
David