Fast and Easy Knife Stropping Guide

Learning how to strop and hone your knives and carving tools is one of the fundamentals for any wood carver. This is the best way to make your knives, gouges, and chisels super sharp and makes it easier to slice through the wood.
This video will show you what to look for, how to set up a strop, how to use the strop, and how to take care of your leather strop.
00:00 Introduction
00:20 What Do You Need
01:26 Adding Compound
02:32 Frequency of Use
03:13 Stropping Angle
03:58 Pressure Applied
04:24 Preventing Damage to Your Strop
04:56 Strop Maintenance
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Recommended tools and supplies
Beavercraft strop I use in the video: amzn.to/3P6G3Hg
Beavercraft strop with both rough and smooth side: amzn.to/3UWjDMB
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[@CarvingisFun]

Recommended tools and supplies Beavercraft strop I use in the video: amzn.to/3P6G3Hg Beavercraft strop with both rough and smooth side: amzn.to/3UWjDMB

[@viniciustadeu7635]

Because of your videos I started carving, it's so relaxing.

[@nikolaip8164]

Thank you!!! that little strop all tucked in was so cute :)

[@CarvingisFun]

You're welcome! I had to have a little fun there 🤣

[@nikolaip8164]

@@CarvingisFun I started whittling about 6 months ago and have looked for a good stropping guide a few times. You answered every question I had! Mainly pressure, angle and how to smooth compound. Thanks again for your guides!

[@nicolaslaloy8002]

Again thank you ! I think that explains why I have so much trouble wood carving

[@jasonbillard5217]

Simple and informative. Thanks.

[@rebeccasimms9329]

Thank you so much ! I just carved my first spoon today and had a hard time with sharpening, this helped tons

[@NikkijsNWA]

This is a great video, thank you!!!

[@psychoticcez3632]

This was really helpful, thank you 😊

[@CarvingisFun]

You're welcome!

[@QuintTheSharker]

Stop, strop and roll!

[@Erick-sf8rs]

I'm struggling to understand which compound I should use. I was gifted white red and green beaver craft compound yet from their website none implies intended use in terms I can understand. Does hone mean sharpening? Going by colour in their stroping video I think I should use the green one to maintain my whittling knife sharpness as it also seems to have the lowest microns (green: 5-7; red: 10-14; white: 50-63).

[@CarvingisFun]

Honing is a stage of sharpening that makes the edge razor sharp!! I only use beavercrafts green compound, you really wont need to use any of the other colors

[@Erick-sf8rs]

Using just the green beavercraft compound managed to get my knife properly sharp pretty quickly. Thank you for the video and the response!!

[@isuruupamal2597]

In your videos i can see two different strops. One is ruff and use compound. The other one is just leather strop not using any compound. What is the correct way of stropping ? I mean use ruff one first and leather second. Is it the way ?

[@CarvingisFun]

All of my strops have compound on them, its juat some are so well used and smooth it looks like there isn't any. The compound on my strop turns dark after use because of the steel coming off the tool during stropping. If I were to scrape it, you would see the compound coming off. Either smooth or rough, just pick one and go. There really isnt a difference unless you put two different types of compounds on the strop.

[@isuruupamal2597]

Thank you very much for your kind replies...always you are doing well..

[@Cooper-Tribe-6]

How do you get the polishing compound from the strop?

[@CarvingisFun]

Not sure what you're asking here, would you give me a little more context? I ask as the compound is added to the strop, not recieved from the strop. Then when the compound is added to the strop, the loaded strop can now be used to hone your caving tools.

[@Erick-sf8rs]

You can scrape it.

[@Cooper-Tribe-6]

@@CarvingisFun Thank you!

[@Cooper-Tribe-6]

@@Erick-sf8rs Thank you!

[@stevemccallum6429]

You don’t need compound on the fine side

[@CarvingisFun]

Very true!! It's essentially a really nice and fine refinement abrasive on its own. I have some smooth strops with nothing on them too :)

[@stevemccallum6429]

@@CarvingisFun thanks for helping me by confirming that and adding to it some times I really get lost

[@ppiilloorryy]

I thought that was a crayon...

[@CarvingisFun]

Well, it is mostly wax 😁