McGuivered myself a strop!

[Buck268]

Well, being that I'm about 10 hours away from home and don't have a job, but I've been wanting to try out stropping, I was in a perdicament. Well I sprung for some mothers metal polish (the white stuff) last week to try and bring back the mirror on an imperial and polish out some scratches on my SAK (from years ago learning to sharpen).

Well the other day, I got the bright idea to slather some on my leather pound for my pocket stone (i think its a washita but I'm not 100%). Well using this to finish up on after using the washita, I've found it works excellent. With good technique and patience brings it from a scrape-shaving edge to a hair popping egde with suprising ease! Excellent results on my two small imperials as well as my SAK. But its only about 3" x 1" area so I'm not going to try the ka-bar on it...

My S30V native didn't show much progress after 40 or so strokes so I stopped; it already shaves with ease anyhow.

Anybody else used mothers polish as stropping compound? Would there be any significant benifit (speed?) to going to a CrO compound? I would imagine it would leave a slightly roughter finish but get there much quicker?

 

[rebeltf]

Good deal , a strop does not need to be a big piece of leather , hell doesnt even need to be leather for that matter.
I do not know if it would make a huge difference in what you are using now in moving to something more suited for the purpose , if it has worked thus far , then you are set.
I would imagine Flitz would work the same or any liquid based polish , after it dries the polishing compound will have absorbed into the leather , so yea it should work fine.

My strop is a funky length of scrap leather that I rubbed red compound into , it works like a charm.

 

[Buck268]

Yeah, I think I'm going to get some green stuf (what is it anyhow, CrO I think...) and put it on an old weight belt eventually, but this is plenty good for now.