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Strop Help...

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Miknuyh

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I have the lansky sharpening system and bought those strops from them. I also bought strop compound from strop man. I can't seem to put the compound on the strop. Any suggestion?
 
I am not familiar with that particular compound, but to apply bar type compounds I found it useful to warm it SLIGHTLY with a hair dryer before putting it on a strop. This worked well for me with the Bark River compounds.
 
Sorry you bought that useless bit of leather...mine sits in a drawer, useless...sigh.
You can try lightly sanding the surface and heating it...I heat the leather on my home made strop on the kitchen gas burner...then adding the compound.
 
Ernie1980 said:
I am not familiar with that particular compound, but to apply bar type compounds I found it useful to warm it SLIGHTLY with a hair dryer before putting it on a strop. This worked well for me with the Bark River compounds.
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Yes. Warm it... don't try to light it up. Also, the coating you apply doesn't have to be thick and even. When I was using bar compounds on strops I just went for a light coating that looked streaked. KSF has some decent vids on their web site about applying solid compound to leather strops
 
Warm it up over a light bulb, rub some onto the strop, add a drop or two of non-oily skin cream and work it into the strop. Don't try for even coverage. You don't need it. You just need to get a trace amount onto the surface of the strop. If you see some 'color,' you have enough compound.


Stitchawl
 
Some good answers here guys, way to help the new guy. We were all there once. Russ
 
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