Thread: Verhoeven Paper Question

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My belt of 10 years constant use has harness leather and plain forged steel buckle. I read this post while waiting for the wife to cook dinner and decided to see what the steel and leather was like in the areas of contact. Black leather and highly polished steel. Unless the fairies have come and polished the steel and scuffed their dirty boots on the leather, I can only conclude that leather is very mildly abrasive.
This in the context of stropping would show little abrasive effect in the short term but would in the long term. This is as long as you don't go back to the hone. Edges can and do improve with age (stropping).
I have been a carpenter/shipwright for 30 yrs and hand strop after I hone a blade and sometimes on a plain leather fixed to the top of my hone box. Stropping like this does remove the burr but not by abrasion but by breaking it off. A few light wipes back on the hone after get a better edge and better when followed on the CrO2 paddle.

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