Thread: Surrely I'm not the only one.

I have used pasted (Dovo red and black, Crox, FeOx, Flexcut gold) strops to maintain my knife, chisel, and plane iron edges for many years. They get a nice sharp edge very quickly after coming off the hones, usually a fine (red) 8" DMT or King 1K. I refresh my kitchen knife edge by stropping after every use and rarely need to go back to the hones. I do not use a steel on my kitchen knives.

I do not use my knife bench strops for razors. A lot of knife swarf builds up on my homemade knife strops which I do not want affecting my razor's edge. Knifes are also harder on the strop surface than razors. My knife strops are also pasted on the textured side of the HandAmerican 3" x 12" leather which is courser than I want for a razor.

For my razors, I use a TM linen latigo 2.5" barber end hanging strop. I refresh edges on a TM 4 sided paddle pasted with 3u, 1u, and .5u diamond. These are never used on knives.

HTH

Originally Posted by Wayne1963

I use my SRD's strop to keep my pocketknife sharp....anyone else use their strop for the same?

Idk why I would want to ? I can't even keep my razor sharp at this point lol

Well i stand corrected, the poster was certainly not alone! This said, Earcutter's post resonated when I read it - although of course, all respect accorded to others who hold differing views.

Originally Posted by Memk

i use my knife bench strops on my straight razors

Wouldnt that just make them "bench strops" then?

Another knife stropper here, works great! In the field, stropping on your jeans will freshen up an edge pretty well too.