Pants leg stropping

I tried old pants and new pants...Levis vs Wrangler, etc. Didn't work well.
Grabbed new Lee's with rough cloth texture...rubbed in decent quantity of Flitz and compared it to Mother's...
...did better, but my wife wasn't happy.
She did say that I'm a sharp dresser...
 
I have found that cardboard that has been hanging around the shop for a while and has shop dust on it is better than my pants.
 
I recently read somewhere on the forums here that one person --and I think he was a knife maker-- found that denim blue jeans removed a fine wire edge better than a leather strop.

I've seen an old video of A.G. Russell telling/demonstrating how he used to strop his straight razor on the palm of his hand. That makes me even more uneasy than pants leg stropping (which I sometimes do).

straight razors lie flat when stropping.
 
I strop on jeans often with woodworking tools, as well as belly stropping. I try to make an excuse to the mrs that I leaned against something.
 
It seems to help clean the edge of dry fibers and dust more than anything. Never had it do much to clean fresh blades.
 
Sometimes when I'm sharpening I wipe the stone by my hand, then I wipe my hand on my pants, and then I strop on my pants... it works for me.
 
It seems to help clean the edge of dry fibers and dust more than anything. Never had it do much to clean fresh blades.

The best thing for cleaning edges, tweezer tips and such, is Rodico. I advise everyone to get a stick of it. One of my biggest pep peeves is dirty and nasty tweezer and tool tips under a microscope, especially in a video. It makes me want to pull my hair out!
So I poke my tweezer tips or screwdriver tip or whatever, into a blob of Rodico so they are clean and pretty when looking through my microscope. But it also removes oil, so watch out for that.
 
It seems to help clean the edge of dry fibers and dust more than anything. Never had it do much to clean fresh blades.

I completely agree. I think it can straighten out a very thin wire edge and make it seem sharp, but I'm not sure that it would do much to remove metal. It's very useful for cleaning up small crumbs of cardboard and whatnot after cutting, though
 
Nope, I use the newspaper.

Not out of boredom though, just when I'm finished sharpening.

I guess boredom never sets in around here. Kids are good for that.
 
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