Must-read thread if you want a incredible free strop for your blades

Good stuff. I'm always on the look out for new way of stropping my carving knives. This looks like a must try.

Thanks Brian for the heads up!!!!!!!!!!
 
Thanks for the tip Brian:thumbup:I get so many of those in the mail.I never thought of using them as a strop.I'm gonna try it right now;)
 
I've tried that before. Works great. I've done it on magazine covers.
Scott
 
I've used cardboard, like the back of legal pads and it works. But I'll have to try the glossed paper too.
 
I tried and it really does work. Hmm.... Thanks for the tip.
And please stop with the corny jokes, but I couldn't help but laugh at it. :D
 
Brian,

Did you just hard roll it into an even cylinder shape? use a standard stropping motion? add any compounds? Gonna give this a try, just gettin the specifics
 
OK. I tried it this afternoon at work on my Centofante III. I'm probably the only one that charges the back of his legal pads with compound. I usually put a 3M automotive product called Swirl Mark Remover on the back of a pad before stropping. Just gives it a little more bite.

Did my usual charged legal pad and followed up with the cover of last months Field and Stream (because I left my FNH Firearms catlog in the car) and it worked damn good.

Thanks for the tip Brian.

Chris
 
The legal pad thing has been a recommendation on Emerson's website for quite some time now. The glossed paper, however, is something I've never heard of, and sounds completely plausible. Off to try it!

Edit: Okay, I'm a 100% believer. I just used a phone book cover on the edge of my HHFSH that I used earlier tonight to chop down a tree, and now it scares the hairs off my arm!
 
While watching TV I strop my SMF on the leg of my blue jeans. Only 1-2 minutes and I can feel a diffence in the edge. The SMF is already pretty sharp, but there a slight increase in sharpness...
 
Beroya said:
*swats Brian with rolled paper strop* "Bad pun... Bad Pun" :D:p
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I know! I know! I LOVE bad puns!!! I admit it! :D That's why my friends still threaten to exclude me from their nightlife. It's hard for them to get laid when I'm cracking bad puns. The key is...it works against them, but in my favor. :thumbup:

Beroya, for a normal grind (i.e. not hawkbill), I use the glossy paper flat and go back and forth very quickly, using almost no pressure at all, to break any wire edge and polish it. I happened to have photo paper for printing photos (glossy, no ink etc.), but placed on top of a phone book. It works great. Go light, just feather the blade back and forth on it.
 
Well hot damn, it worked! Much better than stropping it on a long pnecil eraser. Thanks for the tip, Brian :-)
 
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