Nate's high concentration diamond shmoo (stropping compound)

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Did some strop folder maintenance today . Too much spray ? Too little ? I’d love tips from anyone here on how to get better results stropping . I can get my knives back to paper cutting sharp using my Edge Pro Apex and I typically hone using a ceramic rod .. but I don’t see great results with the strop to be honest
 
Jetlau3 said:
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Did some strop folder maintenance today . Too much spray ? Too little ? I’d love tips from anyone here on how to get better results stropping . I can get my knives back to paper cutting sharp using my Edge Pro Apex and I typically hone using a ceramic rod .. but I don’t see great results with the strop to be honest
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I think it takes practice to get the angle just right. Someone taught me to set the angle by starting with the spine pretty flat and lifting it while actually pulling forward like you are actually cutting into the strop. Go very slowly and gently. Stop just when the edge bites and stops you sliding forward. That’s the angle you want. Works for me anyway. I reset that way every few strokes. It also take very, very light pressure. Also, when you are getting it right, you can hear and feel it. It takes practice and I was really frustrated with stropping for a good while.
 
TRfromMT said:
I think it takes practice to get the angle just right. Someone taught me to set the angle by starting with the spine pretty flat and lifting it while actually pulling forward like you are actually cutting into the strop. Go very slowly and gently. Stop just when the edge bites and stops you sliding forward. That’s the angle you want. Works for me anyway. I reset that way every few strokes. It also take very, very light pressure. Also, when you are getting it right, you can hear and feel it. It takes practice and I was really frustrated with stropping for a good while.
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Another simple way is to color the bevel with a marker, much like sharpening a knife. Makes it easy to see if you have too much, or too little angle (but leaves streaks on the strop).

When you’re used to it, you’ll be able to feel the edge drag, even with light pressure.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Another simple way is to color the bevel with a marker, much like sharpening a knife. Makes it easy to see if you have too much, or too little angle (but leaves streaks on the strop).

When you’re used to it, you’ll be able to feel the edge drag, even with light pressure.
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Yes... Except this requires you pick the knife up to look.
 
Jetlau3 said:
Did some strop folder maintenance today . Too much spray ? Too little ? I’d love tips from anyone here on how to get better results stropping . I can get my knives back to paper cutting sharp using my Edge Pro Apex and I typically hone using a ceramic rod .. but I don’t see great results with the strop to be honest
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Your guided system sharpening routine most likely is putting a pretty fine edge on your knives already and those last couple swipes on a fine ceramic rod or using the ceramic rod as an occasional quick touch up sort of replaces some of the work the strop would do, could be why you don’t see much if a benefit yet? I use my strop a lot for edge maintenance, a few swipes every week or so as my knife use isn’t that severe but it does a good job cleaning the edge up quick and pretty much keeping full blown “sharpening” at bay.


I also use the hell out of my Spyderco Sharpmaker and the white rods.
 
DocJekl said:
New Shmoo didn’t care care how much I shook it up, I still managed to clog all 3 bottles before getting half my strop covered 😓

I’ll try the compressed air method.
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"I’ll try the compressed air method." NOPE.

I'm a failure. I understand if you need to revoke my man-card, or my membership to the porch, or something...
 
DocJekl said:
"I’ll try the compressed air method." NOPE.

I'm a failure. I understand if you need to revoke my man-card, or my membership to the porch, or something...
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Try cleaning and priming the pump head with alcohol and cut your shmoo with more alcohol

I've found that the pump head isn't always clogged, the valve in it can get stuck and prevent effective pumping.
 
Some of the bottles are better than others. :confused:

I'm still struggling with the sprayer problem

I had one that I've been using in production for a while that I finally wore out and replaced yesterday. The replacement wasn't worth a crap so grabbed another one and it's not great either.

If anybody needs more sprayers let me know
 
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