Old time barbers way.
My dad wore his strop out on my butt. No good for sharpening.
Must have been a cheap strop. My dad wore out my butt with his strop.
Old time barbers way.
My dad wore his strop out on my butt. No good for sharpening.
My scale goes like this.
-slice printer paper cleanly
-slice phone book paper cleanly
-whittle a hair. Meaning run a hair along the blade and it should shave parts of the hair off like this
Shaving sharp is plenty sharp imo. After that it's just to show off.
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I just use a sharpmaker: medium, fine and ultra fine stones and then finish it with a strop. The strop is what takes it to that last level of sharpness. I have a strop man strop with the white and green compounds.
And how, pray tell, do you get them THAT sharp?!?!?!?!?!?!?
You talking about Bud? He can do a pretty good edge. I had him do a few knives for dad and I. They are still holding sharp after a couple of deer.BTW - When I get serious about putting an edge on my knives, I finish up by running them across a leather (split) strop with some jeweler's rouge on it. I have a neighbor who makes knives and asked him some time ago about sharpening some knives for me. I took him the blades and he basically said, 'you've got them sharp. You just need to run them across a strop.' So, that's what I've been doing, and it really does seem to make a difference.
You talking about Bud? He can do a pretty good edge. I had him do a few knives for dad and I. They are still holding sharp after a couple of deer.
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