Houshold Stropping Compound

yobbos1

yobbos1

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Is there a reliable household product that can stand in for stropping compound in a pinch? You know like nail polish as Poor-man's lock tite. I just like to experiment with this kind of stuff for fun I realize the real deal is the best way to go but you never know when you'll have to improvise.
 
A plain leather belt. You don't need stropping compound.
 
for compound, you can use mother's mag aluminum polish ($4, walmart)

For a cheap strop, you can cut a strip from your box of cap n' crunch or other cereal...

Is it the best strop (like a jre strop bat, or mrblue's, which I will own sometime soon)?? Heck no.. it's not matchless white compound (or hand american chromium oxide either)

But they'll work.
 
+1 on the Mother Mag Polish. Put in the flattest paint stick you find in the paint dept, and rock out. You'll be surprised.
 
jungman said:
for compound, you can use mother's mag aluminum polish ($4, walmart)
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Actually, any automotive polishing compound will work. And, like someone said, an old leather belt. You can get a $10 one at Wal-Mart, too.
 
Arm and Hammer baking soda makes a great, very fine polishing or stropping compound.
 
MetalGlo metal polishing paste. Works great as a strop paste, and is what I've been using on my straight razors before going to the plain leather. Great shaves every time. Given the pink color of the paste, it makes me wonder if it's similar in grit to pink strop compound?
 
Thank you for all the great suggestions. Tomorrow is Saturday and I'm gonna try them all if I can. First on my Rough Riders and then, if any of these ideas work out for me, my cv Case's.;) Great ideas I hope to try out all of 'em.
 
Ive tried baking soda paste and toothpaste on my leather belt trying to get a hair whittling edge with no luck. My Opinel right now is almost hair whittling , Im gonna give it a go with toothpaste mixed with baking soda.
 
will plain leather clean up the blade to a mirror finish? or at least clean up the scratches from the stone/sandpaper?
 
Listen to this. I made a paste out of Colgate and baking soda , rubbed it into my belt and stropped my Opinel. Got nowhere. Then I rubbed the mixture on some preset ceramic rods and that did the trick. The Opinel is whittling hair.
 
I could not leave well enough alone. I attempted to get it sharper now Im back to where I started.:(
 
Gotsouthern said:
+1 on the Mother Mag Polish. Put in the flattest paint stick you find in the paint dept, and rock out. You'll be surprised.
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Happened to have both sitting around the garage. :-) you're right, I was surprised. Popped up a dang near (hazy) mirror surface in minutes. Took it from a medium Arkansas stone to a very nice edge very easily. I used one of the bigger 5 gal size paint sticks, slathered some Mothers on and went to it. Used very gentle strokes, rolled the blade on its spine and stroked it back. 2-3 minutes and zap, pow, bang. Shiny edge. So some will give me grief for a zombie post, but if your still around, THANKS! Works sweet.
 
A plain padded paper envelope you use for mailing. Nothing on it. Works great for convex grinds, more pressure for flat grinds.

Padded mousepads are good too.
 
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