Question about strops

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KershawLover

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First of all, I'd like to say that I am not a paying member yet, so I don't have the search function, therefore I can only assume that this has been asked before.

Is there anything that you can use around a household that can be substituted for a strop? Does it work just as good as a real one?

Thanks in advance for all the help :thumbup:
 
A strip of leather such as an old belt would do. I have one from Lee Valley Tools, with thick leather glued to both sides of a baton. One side is rubbed down with chromium oxide, also from LVT. But you can make a perfectly good one yourself.
 
KershawLover said:
Should I have any lube or substance between the blade and the leather?

-KL
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You can use the leather plain (the leather has silica impregnated in it by the tanning process, IIRC), or you can buy diamond or chromium oxide (CrO) pastes/powders/waxes of varying degrees of fineness and impregnate those in the leather. The prior, in my experience, mostly just serves as a polish, while the latter is capable of removing meaningful (if small, since nobody bothers selling/using particles bigger than ~10micron on a strop) amounts of metal.
 
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