Where to buy Flitz polish and stropping compound in 1-2 stops?

[Tostig]

I made my own strop in about 20 minutes , I use red buffing compound on it , only applied it once when I first made the strop , works like a charm.

Leather is veg tanned , and wood backing is just lightly sanded plywood plank , used epoxy to join them.

 

[stitchawl]

how did you apply the compound to the belt? saturate it? lightly? you are talking to a serious noob when it comes to this stuff bear with me here

Everybody is new at some point. So perhaps the best idea for you would be to go to http://www.youtube.com/ and in the search box first type in knife sharpening and take a look at the dozens of video tutorials. Then go back to the seach box and type in razor strops and look at all those videos. Then back to the search box once more and type in making a strop and review these ideas.

This should give you well over 100 video tutorials on stropping and sharpening, provide you with a lot of very good (and some pretty bad) information, but most importantly, it will show you just what you need to do and how to do it!

Take a few of these ideas and play with them yourself. Give it a few months for trial and error. Then come back here and give us your impressions!

Stitchawl

 

[str8flexed]

This is exactly what I did. On the left side of my desk, I hammered a nail into it. (not on top of the desk, on the side). Then, I can place the old belt on top of my desk and hook one of the belt loops through the nail and then lay the belt on the edge of the desk horizontally in front of me. With my left hand, I strop the knife, and with my right hand I pull/press on the belt. Keeps it pretty straight, and I didn't even have to mount it somewhere.

The Dico buffing compound I got came in a cardboard tube. Kind of like what frozen biscuits come in. You can peel/cut away one end of it so that some of it is exposed on one end, it is like a stick of chalk, and then just grab it and rub it into your belt until it is coated.