Stropping benefit

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zombywoof

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Does leather stropping (with or without compound?) after finishing with something like the Spyderco Sharpmaker White or DMT Fine or Extra Fine stone make sense?

Or is progressing down to some sort of ultrafine Japanese waterstone etc. required for it to be of benefit?

Thanks.
 
Yes it will work, I do it all the time. I use bare leather (typically a barber strop).

As long as you have done the stone work correctly and made the burr as small as possible then a few passes on a quality strop will greatly enhance the edge from about any finishing point.
 
Zom, At that point what is the desire? To remove the burr or make the edge finer? DM
 
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The same point there is to stropping at a low grit.
 
Stropping helps tremendously.
I didnt know what sharp really was until I started using a bare leather strop.
 
Stropping with bare leather is basically sharpening with the finest grit available. No magic. If your stones followed by compounds go down to .25u, then stropping with bare leather at .05u is nothing more than the next smaller abrasive. So small that most people don't even refer to it as abrasive... but it is. And THAT is why your edges get sharper when you strop with bare leather!


Stitchawl
 
I have a leather strop with .5 micron diamond spray and a lot of the time I just strop and it keeps my knives phone book paper push cutting sharp
 
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