Leather Guitar Strap for strop?? help!

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chasewatmatters

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So I have this guitar strap that I am pretty sure is made of real leather, but I am just not sure if this particular strap would be good to use as a strop. Any help would be appreciated. I've attached pictures of the strap. here is the front of it...
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and now the back side... http://www.flickr.com/photos/108269824@N05/10789614006/in/photostream/lightbox/
 
I'd imagine it would be.
I own a real strop, but to be honest with you, even my pant leg works good too.
You can use anything, really.
 
That should work, especially if used with compound. If the leather is relatively soft, make sure to keep pressure light. You might also experiment using it as a hanging strop (like barber's razor strop), with no hard backing behind it. Leather belts/straps like these can work quite well this way, with simpler steels and basic compounds, like green (chromium oxide).

What steel types will you be stropping? This'll make a difference in what you might expect for results, and your compound selection will be a big factor.


David
 
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My first post on this site. Looking for ways to sharpen fillet knives and stumbled upon you guys. Anyway, I was screwing around with a couple of little pocket knives I carry. Polishing the edge of the blades with different things - leather with toothpaste, a Puck stone, a piece of paper, etc. when I spotted an old notebook made of fake suede. Man, whan a nice polishing job I did on those blades with that notebook. Anyone else ever try fake suede?
 
chasewatmatters said:
14C28N sandvick and S30V primarily...
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For 14C28N, standard black/white/green compounds (silicon carbide, aluminum oxide, chromium oxide) should work well. For S30V, I'd use diamond or CBN (Cubic Boron Nitride); other compounds may not be hard or aggressive enough for the carbides in S30V.

If you use diamond compound on the strop, it'll obviously work for the lesser steels as well. Just avoid over-stropping with it, as it will abrade less wear-resistant steels much faster.


David
 
chasewatmatters said:
okay great ill try those compounds. What do you use just to sharpen?
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LOTS of options there. Synthetic stones along the same lines as the recommended stropping compounds, but coarser, will work for sharpening/honing those steels. Synthetic stones in silicon carbide or aluminum oxide (example: Norton's Crystolon and India stones, respectively) would work for the 14C28N. Wet/dry sandpaper in the same abrasives would also work. Again, diamond would be best with S30V, and much more aggressive on the Sandvik steel and others like it. For finishing to a higher degree, touching up and/or polishing bevels, ceramic hones could be used for either steel.


David
 
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