Flitz for stropping works great

[joepa150]

I made a few strops a year or so again. I used some scraps of Herman Oak Leather and glued them to pieces of wood about 4" wide and 8" long.

I bought a black and a green crayon type compound stick from Sears. They work ok at best. They don't seem like they are easy to apply to the leather. I even tried to heat it up with a heat gun. I just could never get an even smooth service. Always was a bit lumpy and uneven.

I saw on one of the forums that some have used Flitz. I had a bottle I used years ago for cleaning up vintage safety razors.

So I smeared some on a piece of leather. Since it is a liquid, it went on much thinner and was very smooth.

I never liked to strop because I never had any good results. Often my blade would become duller.

I tried to strop one knife with Flitz. Wow is all I can say. It is sharper and the edge is mirror like!!! (It was sharpened up to a 4000 grit King stone first).

Flitz may not be as good as some of the ultra expensive stropping compounds but so far I am amazed.

[thombrogan]

It's great stuff!

Also, instead of using heat with those bars of buffing compound, try mineral oil. I use mineral oil to emulsify my big old green block of buffing compound (unless stropping on paper and only when I can tear myself away from diamond spray, hubcap polish, or Flitz).

[Q_Egg]

Thom ............
Hope you didn't drink all the Adams #2 :p Not good to store it too close to the Pepto Bismol ........

Flitz works ok; smells weird ......

Tom B

[rhinoknives1]

Green Rouge is mostly for blending a fine satin finish on a stainless stainless, It will work for stropping but it's not as fine as other rouge compounds.

I use Fabulustor "Spelling?" I am at home this morning It's at the shop.

Generally! There's that word again, LOL The darker the rouge the heavier grit, The lighter the color the finer,
With Pink & white rouge being the finest, There is a Black magic rouge that some rave about it's fine polishing work.
So there's one exception for ya.
Fabuluster works great as a final on a strop and I use it on a buffing wheel for deburring.

www.riogrande.com/jewelry Stocks it and many other useful products for knife sharpening and care. Flitz too!


Laurence

www.westsidesharpening.com/

[thombrogan]

Ammonia can do that. I've never had Adams #2. Doc_Nightfall and Mongatu had that. I use Meguiars' Sweet Rims cinnamon-scented hubcap polish when not using other fun things.

[Q_Egg]

Ha! Lots of Mirror Glaze stuff around to experiment with ... no cinnamon though

Tom B

[thombrogan]

Laugh all you want, but I dab a little bit of that stuff of leather or printer paper and the edges it makes are so sharp that no one notices that I wipe the excess off on my barrettes.