Stroping and Diamond paste?

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Can someone explain how i can make or where i can find a leather strop? Would a belt work?

And wth is diamond paste and where can i get some and how do i use it?


Thanks for any info!:thumbup:
 
It's fairly simple... once you have a sharp edge on your knife, you apply the compound to the leather, work it in a little (don't use too much) then holding the knife at an angle as close as you can get to the angle you sharpned the blade at, draw the knife against the strop spine first, so you don't cut into the leather. Use the same number of strokes on each side for balance sake.
 
Leather belts work great. More or less the same thing as the strops that you can buy, but a little less wide.

Personally, leather is a bit soft for me and introduce convexity at the very edge. I've switched to old newspaper for stropping and loading diamond paste with.
 
For the knives I prefer bench type strops, steel base, leather pads with magnetic base. I have 1 loaded with 0.5mic diamond spray, another with 0.25mic diamond spray and the last one is plain leather.

If you want to avoid convexing as cotdt mentioned, there are magnetic based glass plates for those bench strops as well, just spray diamond spray on the glass and proceed.

Handamerican is making those benches and strops and diamond slurry/paste/liquid.
 
Gator97 said:
For the knives I prefer bench type strops, steel base, leather pads with magnetic base. I have 1 loaded with 0.5mic diamond spray, another with 0.25mic diamond spray and the last one is plain leather.

If you want to avoid convexing as cotdt mentioned, there are magnetic based glass plates for those bench strops as well, just spray diamond spray on the glass and proceed.

Handamerican is making those benches and strops and diamond slurry/paste/liquid.
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If you can find hand american products please let me know where.
 
Hmm, that actually might be a good question. Dave Martell used to sell their stuff at JapaneseKnifeSharpening.com, but he is out now.
I've emailed folks at handamerican.
Paste/Spray/Slurry you can order from them directly as far as I understand.
 
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