Watch This Before You Strop Your Knives---How to Maintain Your Carving Knives

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Sharpening can be made so much easier if you just strop your tools everyday! Learn to strop your tools with just a piece of flat wood and some honing compound. Enjoy this beginner's guide to sharpening your tools!
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[@FrankGarcia-tw9qz]

Wow,I wasn't aware you could use wood with compound on blades, your the man Alex

[@timpier7817]

I glued denim to a piece of plywood, works very well!

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

That’s a cool idea

[@chaseybears]

Simply brilliant......brilliantly simple....thanks Alec ;0)

[@rickgroshong250]

Thanks for simplifying this, Alec!

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

My pleasure!

[@stantilton2191]

Good tip Alec. You are not alone with the allergies, I've always had them. Love summer, hate pollen.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Right!? Thanks!

[@White-Rose-Woodworking]

Thanks Alec, always a good time watching your videos

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

I appreciate that!

[@fngrusty42]

Carpenter for 35 years. All my tools were sharp we didnt use strops . Started carving when i retired. Lol what a wonderful thing, strops are. i do use a thin leather one. I made it myself so it has a curve on one side and tight 45 to 50 degree on the other , but i also use wood for a lot of my odd shaped gouges. Good video . Lots of people dont understand strops or what they do or what types of materials they can be made from. Brown paper bags over flat materials also strops very nice the material under the bag can be steel , or whatever as long as it flat and some what stiff.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

So many things you can strop on! Thanks!

[@robertschaeffer5861]

Remember when Zam hit the woodcarving scene. Jewlers rouge was the mainstay.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

How long ago was that?

[@MrErViLi]

I've been using MDF to do this for years with my carving gouges and turning tools. Green on one side and white on the other side. And a few different sizes of dowl rods to use for interior bevels. I also have an MDF wheel in my bench grinder for honing knives.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Cool idea!

[@theartsypixie2771]

😮 you had us stuck in that trunk forever! 😂

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

But I let you out, didn't I?

[@lesliecrowther7004]

High Alec, yet more great handy tips 👌 thanks. O'h, by the way, thanks to you😊 I spent a few quid, the flexcut skew knife, O'h yes what a great little knife this is, amazing for those fine cuts and little bits and pieces and super super sharp, even sharper after a little lite strop on my good strop and white compound. Glad I watched your videos. Thanks mate 👍 Cheers 🍻 Les.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Glad to hear you like it!! Cheers !!

[@paulnagtzaam914]

great advice thank`s Alec

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

My pleasure!

[@brianschleinkofer6251]

Thanks for the tips.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

You bet!

[@ozoneswiftak]

I think of the Barber stroping using a long belt attached to fixure on the wall. Now I'm wondering if he uses a compound? Is it necessary to use a compound?

[@mikejake6360]

Compound speeds up the process significantly. Technically you could polish a piece of metal with a t-shirt but without polishing compound it takes forever

[@grassyknoll4702]

very helpful..

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Glad to hear!

[@danielmilliken8903]

Love ur vids. Bro

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Thanks dude!!

[@robweaver9367]

Thanks Alec. How does yellow compound compare to the green?

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

The yellow is typically a fairly aggressive cutting compound but a good choice as well!

[@theartsypixie2771]

My fancy leather strop is a scrap of veg tan glued to a block of poplar I had laying around. For my leather edge bevelers I use a line of string with compound on it. Are there really fancy strops out there?

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

I’ve seen some pretty fancy ones that cost an arm and a leg!! Sounds like you have a great setup! Doesn’t have to be expensive to be great!

[@CletusGortner1]

Just wondering...do you ever have to remove stopping compound buildup from your strop?

[@CletusGortner1]

No advice?

[@SoeCarpeDiem]

Merci ! Donc tu n'inclines pas la lame selon son angle ???

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

You tilt the blade to the angle of the bevel!

[@SoeCarpeDiem]

@@AlecLaCasseArt Je me disait aussi ! Merci !

[@PetrikNZ]

No comments about sandpaper? Carving advice is to leave sanding your work till you finished the knife work so the last thing I'd be doing is roughing up a stopping surface with sandpaper.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

Call the carving police! 👮

[@mattvergauwen5307]

Nifty idea for that Zam compound stick: make it a push up like a stick of deodorant.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

That would be nifty!

[@NCHDEMON]

👍👍👍👍

[@davecobb4025]

A teaspoon of local organic honey every morning will help with those allergies .

[@YourCommonSinner]

Organic honey and aloe have some amazing health benefits huh as well as medicinal. My mom would always mix aloe and honey to treat burns

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

I’ll try that!

[@DoubleDowner]

@@AlecLaCasseArt good advice, we do that in the UK, buy local honey it contains pollen from the area you live in... builds up an immunity/tolerance.

[@AlecLaCasseArt]

@@DoubleDowner I forget to pick up local honey during allergy season!