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Ants = contamination. Their mandibles will wreck your edge (they measure several thousand microns across).

This is a reason I espouse the vacuum stropping methods.

Drizzle honey on the hood of a black car, then swirl it around.

I never saw that...but I used to frequent bushcraft discussion groups, and being an obsessive honer/sharpener, I am always looking for new (to me) aways to work steel.

We had several interesting...

132009

These are a bit more like garnets, but they still leave an edge a bit too harsh for my tastes. I have tried 'developing' a slurry, but they only evolve to greater angularity and even...

Some pollens are better than others. You really want something that leaves a nice mellow edge. Here in the Midwest the pollen leaves a harsh toothy edge.

132007

I prefer to strop in a vacuum...

I hate to doubt what I have no experience or data to support...but I would LOVE to learn what analysis was done to define the grit ranges and differences for those strops.

I think the debris...