All my armhair is gone after receiving a KME for Christmas. I am now having to pull up my shirt and go for the chest hair.🤣 I really do need to get myself one of those little tool burritos. very cool.
I use my D2 knife a lot on my mini farm. Every night I give it 20-30 passes on a 1500 grit stone, followed by a little stropping. It only takes a few minutes to get it sharp enough for another day of hard work.
I do this while videos and stuff, it's so relaxing. One question, can you use just any regular old leather belt and should you roughen up the surface to make it more grainy ?
Most leather will work, specifically the flesh side of the leather. Alternatively you can use canvas or denim as well. I have a friend that keeps a bit of stropping compound (waxy) on the inside of their belt, so he can strop anytime he needs. Hope this helps -Logan
Not dissimilar to sharpening stones in that the denser the leathers texture and surface, the less the stropping will do. And like sharpening stones as well, the more refined it becomes with that density. So as regards the question, most any leather surface will work & the coarser it is then the easier it will ‘cut’ or address the metal surface. For most stropping a coarse to medium leather surface will work best.
You can definitely strop without using compound just fine. The compound just adds a bit of microscopic abrasiveness that will help polish that edge. You can get a decent mirror polish using compound.
I've done a lot of metal polishing for >50 years. In my experience, there's no economy in buying cheap-o compound. Silicon carbide is more cost effective than aluminum oxide and diamond is more effective than silicon carbide. My advice is to play around with the cheap-o stuff to find the grit/mesh/micron size that's well suited for your purpose, then invest in the good stuff.
I frequently strop my knives after dinner just as a relaxation technique. Then you can really get into the weeds.... get yourself two double sided stropping blocks and some green, black and white compound and you can really go nuts.
most people present stropping as this whole different thing. stropping your edge on leather with compound or your jeans is still sharpening. if you would do edge trailing strokes on a 16000 grit japanese waterstone it would have the same effect as stropping on a leather strop with fine stropping compound. Not trying to be a d*** here. Thought maybe someone would find this useful. As for Ben: Dude! I am not a small knife guy...but the Baby Banter(micarta) is, imo, a really impressive knife in its size category.
If it's blue loctite then the appropriate size torx bit should be perfectly fine! If you're afraid of stripping bits or screws then just heat the heads of the screws with a mini iron or you can even use a hair dryer to get it nice and hot to help loosen the loctite.
@@Sanctified_Leather haha I see. .. I understand that, my ex wife wasn't happy with my knife collecting hobby. But then again she collected a million pairs of shoes she rarely wore
How about the use of a steel, haven't seen a video of anyone using a steel sharpening rod. I use one frequently on various knives with good results but haven't seen a video on their use. Might be a good idea for a video.
I’ve watched SEVERAL how to stropping videos and NOBODY specifies to use the slick side or the rough side. Please tell me which side to use so I don’t f it up
Problem is generally you strop on something soft you can cut usually. Piece of leather, and so on so the knife edge can dig in to the strop, and you might cut in to it. By going opposite direction for example theres no risk of that happening. Also you easily end up dulling the edge on squishy soft surfaces in direction of cut as the surface gives, and you push the edge against it. Same thing if you sharpen with stuff like sandpaper like many do to my understanding for example on convex edges most sharpen like on strop because you end up digging in to the sand paper. Most common way of sharpening on stones, rods, and such hard things you are not going to cut or something is to go direction of cut,
