Leather Strop - My Experience on Types, Selection, and Use

Keeping our tools sharp helps ensure safe and accurate cutting. I’ll share what I have learned along the way about leather strops.

Sharpal strop is a premium vegetable tanned hide with abrasive green compound that will put the sharpest edge possible on knives. It should be used as the final step in sharpening. The tool works by realigning the very fine edge of the blade and polishing the blades surface. After use or sharpening the blade will have a slight burr this burr is what catches when you attempt to cut. By stropping the knife the very fine edge of the blade will begin align, while the compound polished the edge.

Sharpal 205H Double-Sided Leather Strop

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Nothing puts that final edge on a knife better than a honing strop. Just use only one professional sharpening strop and keep all your woodcarving tools always extremely sharp. The leather knife sharpener is made of real leather, so no worry about the reliability of the woodworking strop. Our double-sided strop is a very versatile tool. There is no tool or knife that can't be refined on this small leather strop.

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