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I made this recently with the goal of assessing a leather strop vs a denim strop embedded with Chromium Oxide (CrOx). After generally finding a sharper edge off of my CrOx embedded suede strop vs the leather of the same strop, I thought I'd DIY this little hands held strop and see if it was the same outcome.
It was.
This is beginning to make me question leather strops all together.
Maybe my technique sucks, or there's something I'm missing, but if anything, I find I get a duller edge off of leather. Especially if I go CrOx, wipe the edge and then go to leather.
I'm the same person sharpening three different knives using the same technique on all knives and surfaces. Am I the problem?
After reading up on "The Science of Sharp," (https://scienceofsharp.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/what-does-stropping-do/']https://scienceofsharp.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/what-does-stropping-do/']https://scienceofsharp.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/what-does-stropping-do/ )
I find even less of a pro argument for leather. Yes it polishes, but so does other material that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
Thinking high level, there are likely only a few things that could be happening on a micro level to the steel to polish or sharpen:
Alignment - pushing the steel back into a single apex.
Abrasion - removing steel
Melting - Causing steel to melt and smooth/flatten
Polishing - Adding something to fill the holes
So far, it seems leather does none of the above, except maybe slight melting and abrasion. I have no idea what leather's grit would be, but I imagine it would be so high, it would do practically nothing. Otherwise, one would have to strop so much on leather to "sharpen" at it's really high grit that the risk of melting and bending the edge would be very high.
In other words the risk greatly outweighs the rearward.
Is there a benefit to leather when there are so many other options that seem better AND cheaper?
Does leather have a grit?
Should leather be kept for sheath and sweet period clothing?
What do you think experienced blade forum community?
http://vault.sfu.ca/index.php/s/nBX16lPtcCJIlnD
http://vault.sfu.ca/index.php/s/q9fBWL1ikoqueu6
http://vault.sfu.ca/index.php/s/qUwj5bVLGlq1H6Y
I made this recently with the goal of assessing a leather strop vs a denim strop embedded with Chromium Oxide (CrOx). After generally finding a sharper edge off of my CrOx embedded suede strop vs the leather of the same strop, I thought I'd DIY this little hands held strop and see if it was the same outcome.
It was.
This is beginning to make me question leather strops all together.
Maybe my technique sucks, or there's something I'm missing, but if anything, I find I get a duller edge off of leather. Especially if I go CrOx, wipe the edge and then go to leather.
I'm the same person sharpening three different knives using the same technique on all knives and surfaces. Am I the problem?
After reading up on "The Science of Sharp," (https://scienceofsharp.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/what-does-stropping-do/']https://scienceofsharp.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/what-does-stropping-do/']https://scienceofsharp.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/what-does-stropping-do/ )
I find even less of a pro argument for leather. Yes it polishes, but so does other material that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
Thinking high level, there are likely only a few things that could be happening on a micro level to the steel to polish or sharpen:
Alignment - pushing the steel back into a single apex.
Abrasion - removing steel
Melting - Causing steel to melt and smooth/flatten
Polishing - Adding something to fill the holes
So far, it seems leather does none of the above, except maybe slight melting and abrasion. I have no idea what leather's grit would be, but I imagine it would be so high, it would do practically nothing. Otherwise, one would have to strop so much on leather to "sharpen" at it's really high grit that the risk of melting and bending the edge would be very high.
In other words the risk greatly outweighs the rearward.
Is there a benefit to leather when there are so many other options that seem better AND cheaper?
Does leather have a grit?
Should leather be kept for sheath and sweet period clothing?
What do you think experienced blade forum community?
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