What micron do you use for stropping

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1 micron is my most used for bringing back an edge and general maintenance.
 
Most stropping I do is geared toward maintaining an edge that's already in decent shape and usually done with no compound at all, using something like a bare leather belt or a hard-backed denim strop without compound. In other words, I strop only enough to realign a slightly rolled edge or to clean up any fine, loose burrs or remnants of burrs left after resharpening on stones. I also sometimes strop on clean paper laid over an oil stone - I do this immediately upon finishing resharpening on the same stone (usually Fine India), to clean up the burrs and align the edge.

If 'bringing back the edge' is the goal, I'll always use a hone or stone for that. And usually at the finest grit possible, according to my own finishing grit preference, usually in the 320 - 600 range, as with a Fine India stone or a Fine DMT diamond hone. OR, sometimes I use a brown/grey ceramic for that, approximating something in the 1200-grit ballpark.

Any stropping I might do with a compound, I'd only do if I were looking for a more polished finish. Most of the time, I don't want or need that. But for a few kitchen knives, I have used some white rouge aluminum oxide compound (2 -5 micron) on hard-backed denim to polish the thin convex I keep on those. 3-micron diamond compound used on firm/hard wood also works very well for such polishing.
 
I just use Dialux Green compound, I read somewhere on bladeforum saying that the green is 2000 grit, around 10 micron, but in my opinion, they are far finer than that. I have a 1000 grit King stone, their grit rating is quite accurate, and a 3000-4000 grit stone, and the polished edge I get after stropping is far more polished than 4000 grit, I'd say it's somewhere between 7000-10,000 grit, so it's around 1-2 micron.

Granted, I use the Green compound because 1. I only sharpen not-super-steel, 2. it's cheap and easy to buy where I live and 3. one bar last like forever.
 
I will go as low as 6 micron. I really like 3 micron on suede leather for the balance of speed-of-work and sharpness results. However, generally-speaking, my knives almost always see a 1k stone during maintenance simply because most of the jobs I use my knives for (like super gritty recycled cardboard) pretty much kills the edge to the point of needing a stone anyway—at least, for me, because I am a huge edge snob. But yeah, 3-6 mic diamond is what I go to if I want to maximize the maintenance work my strop is doing for me
 
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