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Leather Strop - Kangaroo Hide Suede Side

Sale price$99.00
Plain or Pre-Loaded with Compound:

Plain or Pre-Loaded with Compound

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A strop is an essential item in sharpening and edge maintenance to keep the sharp edge long without sharpening, remove any remaining burrs after sharpening, and refine the edge to a blazing sharp condition.

Many of the benchtop strops on the market must be held with one hand to prevent them from moving and are not tall enough for knuckle clearance when used on a bench. We decided to make our strops that we would love to use.  

Key Features

  • Good heftiness (Base made of Jarrah, hard timber) 0.6 kg
  • Good grips (round rubber feet for small contact area)
  • Similar size to regular whetstones (278 x 72 mm)
  • Good knuckle clearance from the bench (45mm tall)
  • Kangaroo hide (considered to perform superior to cow hides in strops)

Pre-loaded with compound or Plain

General Recommendation:

Choose Pre-Loaded with Compound if you are a beginner who is not sure which one to get or anyone who would like the green compound preloaded on the strop. The green compound is made of chromium oxides that are often used for polishing metals and jewelry. They are available in the form of a waxy bar and are colour-coded as green. The grit number is often not disclosed by manufacturers but is usually about #8000 which is very fine. Unless you are a heavy user, you don't need to re-apply the compound for a very long time. We use this strop with the green compound applied in the majority of our works as well as in our classes.

Choose Plain if you are an intermediate to advanced user who wishes to apply your desired abrasive compound or finish the edge without further polishing after sharpening on a stone.

Leather Strop - Kangaroo Hide Suede Side
Leather Strop - Kangaroo Hide Suede Side Sale price$99.00

What is a Strop?

It is almost an essential item in sharpening and edge maintenance. A similar form to stropping would be honing rods that are often seen and used in the western society. The honing steel/ceramic/diamond rods can fall under the broad category of strops because they perform similar functions and don't remove much of steel. Really great things about the rods are portability, convenience, and water resistance, but generally strops create superior cutting edge to the rods.

It has three major functions:

  • Touching up a mildly to moderately worn edge between sharpenings, so it keeps your blade sharp longer without sharpening.
  • Removing any remaining burrs that you could not remove during sharpening on a stone, and
  • Refining the sharp edge. It is a sharpness booster.

See below for more information.

How to Strop

The following elements are some of the key information, especially for beginners.

Three Styles of Strops

Most common materials used are animal hides, but it can be made of linen, hemp, poly webbing, denim, synthetic cloth, cardboard, newspaper, or timber. They all perform differently. There are three styles of strops:

Plain or Compound?

It is optional to load your desired polishing or abrasive compound on a strop.

Two Sides of Hide

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