Thread: a leather belt to sharpen razor?

thats true BK but i used a spare blet when i first started out for the first 3 weeks and i managed to do fine. I would sugesst that you look into a strop soon but in my openion a belt will work out for now as along as its real leather and has a smooth texture.

Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995

thats true BK but i used a spare blet when i first started out for the first 3 weeks and i managed to do fine. I would sugesst that you look into a strop soon but in my openion a belt will work out for now as along as its real leather and has a smooth texture.

The problem is that a lot of "real leather" belts below, say, the $50 range are actually made of ground up leather glued into a sheet-- and often times grit from the grinding process is mixed in, even though you can't feel it. Basically, a belt is a very hit-or-miss strop.

I would recommend using newsprint instead, until you can get a real strop.

Just because something CAN work doesn't mean it's a reliable method or a good idea. There are many impromptu items I would rather use for stropping instead of a belt - old jeans, newspaper and my palm or arm are just a few.

But ultimately, strops are a purpose-designed piece of equipment, and there is no substitute.

Yea your best bet is to get a strop and be done with it but if you must use a susptitute, Take news paper and strop on that that also gve a verry verry fine honign to your razor as the ink as a verrry high grit size.

I moved your thread to the Strop section to help garnish more replies.

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Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995

Yea your best bet is to get a strop and be done with it but if you must use a susptitute, Take news paper and strop on that that also gve a verry verry fine honign to your razor as the ink as a verrry high grit size.

Actually the ink used for most printing these days is a vegetable oil base with other non toxic additives.

The older inks pre-90's did have heavy metals in them to get the correct tint. Now days the inks don't use heavy metals unless it is of a special pantone color, such as a business logo that isn't in the pantone spectra. Even then metallic inks are outlawed in almost every State with the exception of a few. Like VA. W.Va, North and S. Carolina

Even the metallic inks today don't use heavy metals any longer. The paper it's self has more grit than the ink does. Newspaper is a web based printing method and uses almost the same ink as most Industrial printers use.

Hope you enjoyed your printing lesson for the day