Thread: Honing with a strop.

Hey

So I tried making the leather more abrasive by roughening it up. It didn't work. The leather removed less metal proportionate to the amount of finishing I removed from the surface of the leather. I think that the silicates on the surface of the leather are very important in stropping. I am not the first to say this, it was just in my head, so I typed it.

With this in mind I am going to try to introduce more silicates into the strop using potassium silicate to see what that does

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Not sure why you would think the surface texture would do anything to an edge whatsoever, except perhaps ruin it if it gets too craggy. Leather is leather. Unless you end up embedding some grit into the leather during the roughing up phase, but then you are simply talking about yet another abrasive strop.

By all means give it a go, but my armchair theorising it telling me that you'll probably only influence the draw by doing this, and that any edge effects will be because you failed to adequately remove embedded grit from the "landscaping" agent.

James.