Stropping with a Magic Rub?

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I was playing with my Opi #7 realizing that it was in need of a strop. To tired to get up and grab my strop I reached for the nearest thing. It was a magic rub eraser 2 strokes, and the thing was a MIRROR wow these things are good strops. Sadly size can be an issue. I do think leather would be better though xD.
 
I just tried it with a 'magic eraser', one of those white rectangular kitchen cleaning things that looks like a weird sponge (I assume that's a similar product?)

It worked quite well - I was surprised. You have to be SUPER gentle with this, though, and use just the lightest touch.
 
Don't those "scratch" the surface of your kitchen/bathroom to clean the grim away. They are basically a ridiculously fine cloth sandpaper. Wont it damage the knife then?(Maybe thats why you said to use a light touch).
 
Yes, it's a fine abrasive, like the compound used with a loaded strop. The surface deforms very easily though, which is why a very light touch is required. If the surface deforms too much, you'll be abrading the edge itself, and just make the knife duller.
 
MikeJackmin said:
Yes, it's a fine abrasive, like the compound used with a loaded strop. The surface deforms very easily though, which is why a very light touch is required. If the surface deforms too much, you'll be abrading the edge itself, and just make the knife duller.
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I'm talking about the pencil eraser magic rub not the cleaning compound. http://www.google.com/products?rlz=...esult_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CB4QrQQwAg
You can buy them nearly everywhere at almost any store that sells pencils/ erasers.
 
haha glad we are on same page now. In the process we discovered that the "magic erasers" do polish as well.
 
A pencil eraser? Oh.

I wonder if they make bigger ones - it would probably work better than the thing I'm using.
 
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