Using Blue Lube on a strop?

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Adamadamadam

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I have a knife with an all satin stainless housing. I was wondering if I could use benchmade blue lube on a leather strop I made to polish it up, its supposed to clean right? Just a thought that came to me. Its a SOG S-33 gentlemans if interested.
 
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Whats blue lube? Doesn't sound like it has any abrasive elements, which is what makes a stropping/polishing compound "cut" the steel to sharpen it. Better just to use the plain leather, or better yet, a piece of paper wrapped around the coarse side of a stone, with some compound or plain, and that will do better than just putting a lubricant on it.

You could strop with what I suggested above, but if you are looking to actual polish the knife, you need something that will actually abrade the steel.
 
Adamadamadam said:
I have a knife with an all satin stainless housing. I was wondering if I could use benchmade blue lube on a leather strop I made to polish it up, its supposed to clean right? Just a thought that came to me. Its a SOG S-33 gentlemans if interested.
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No, Don't do that.
 
Blue lube is lube... lubrication... lubricant... Oil. It will do absolutely nothing on a strop except saturate it with oil and ruin it.
 
Some people use oil on stones and maybe that's where your getting the idea from, to use it on a strop. But NO, to using it on a strop, it will ruin it. Leather even by itself acts as a very fine abrasive on the steel an hence, polishes the steel. Oil of any kind on leather would ruin that ability and slight abrasiveness. And cant be undone.
 
If the goal is just cleaning up the satin stainless handle on the pocketknife, it's almost worry-free. Seldom will it need much at all. If you occasionally want to remove some light scuffs or scratches on it, use a green Scotch-Brite pad for that. It's the kind found in the household/kitchen cleaning supplies at the grocery store, and is gently abrasive enough that it'll re-create the satin finish on it's own. If you actually want to polish the handle a bit, just a clean rag with some metal polish like Flitz would do for that.

As mentioned though, no good will come from oiling the leather strop. They can tolerate some oil as a base suspension for liquid stropping compounds, applied very lightly. But applying any extra oil for any other reason won't do any good for the strop, or for polishing.
 
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