Patrice Lemée;6695792 said:
Nathan, another question on top of the leather thickness one. Is green chrome the same chromium oxide I can use for the strop? I got this and pink scratchless compound, both from Jantz.
Thanks again.
Patrice
My strop and my stropping goo were both gifts from a fellow maker. I don't know a lot about their origin. He told me something along the line of "here, you will need this". It is a long narrow strip of about 10 oz leather, with snaps on one end so it could be made into a loop, though I don't use it that way.
The green chrome is in lanolin paste that needs recharged very infrequently. It cuts aggressively and puts a polished edge on so quickly I need to take care not to over strop and loose the tooth. A blade taken to a shaving edge on stones only needs about ten or twenty passes per side to have a tree topping, hair whittling, honestly frighteningly sharp edge.
I lay it out flat on the same bench as my stones. I strop at the same angle I finished up on the stones, but pulling away from the edge. I use a fairly light pressure and I never let the edge roll over at the end. Five passes in one direction, then five in the other, rinse and repeat.
Hair whittling is when you can take a hair from your head, and shave slivers from it. This is a edge that you can dangle a hair, and touch the edge to it and *Bink*, it cuts in half. It needs to be sharp before you go to the strop. But I can't get one this sharp without the strop, and with the strop, when it happens, it happens pretty fast.
Hard thin carbon steel works the best, but I've even done it on S30V.
You're going to be sooo addicted
