Unconventional Stropping

[Silens]

I'm not sure how effective this really is. It does feel like it's removing burring to me, but it might be my imagination. Basically, on my knife sheath I have a leather loop which attaches to the belt. I've been placing the knife through this loop and then pinching the leather around the edge and just sliding it through. Is this just a waste of my time?

 

[Brisket]

I can see it removing a burr as I sometimes wipe a blade lengthwise along the edge of a piece of leather or edge of a strop to remove a burr although I find cutting into wood like a paint stick works better at burr removal. As far as the sideways stropping action I wouldn't think it would be an effective way refining the edge other than burr removal, but I have never experimented with that technique. I have used the back and edges of a sheath for stropping, trailing edge of course, in the field with great success.

 

[Over Kill]

I use the tips of my fingers to gently strop my blades sometimes lol. Im sure your way works too

 

[Benuser]

I sometimes remove a tenacious burr on split leather, with very light small sharpening motions, edge leading, perpendicular to the edge, call it scratching.