STROPPING MADE EASY!!! MAINTAIN YOUR KNIFE EDGE AND STAY SHARP!

How to Maintain a great edge on your kitchen knives and pocket knives! How to Strop, tips and tricks. I get asked a lot how to Strop and this a great way to maintain your edge without sharpening all the time.. you can spend a lot of money on one, or little. honestly I can't tell the difference between a high end $80 strop or a $15 strop from Amazon. I would say get a cheap strop but splurge and get great Emulsion.
here's a medium expensive strop:
www.sharpeningsupplies.com/12...
and here's some awesome emulsion:
www.knifecenter.com/item/GGLE...
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[@Billfish57]

I use a Work Sharp with a leather belt and a 5 micron diamond and then switch belts to a .5 micron belt, always on the slowest speed possible with light pressure and I'm able to get amazing results in about 3 to 6 passes on each side, less than a minute, sometimes only one pass is needed to bring back a razor sharp edge. I can't imagine the time it takes to strop hundreds of strokes for each side of a blade. I have dozens of knives but only heavy use about ten of them and they all love that slow speed leather treatment for tune ups, I never need to sharpen my blades really, leather belts for touch ups is it. I do sharpen friends knives just for fun and that keeps my skill up. I admire your dedication to sharpening but I'll stick to powered stropping unless I have no choice I think.

[@dannyparrish724]

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[@meesterdinglefritz2064]

Holy smokes! I’ll stop maybe 15x each side. Do you do that for a mirror polish?

[@sharpends4279]

This is an old video, I only do 15 per side now. Maybe time to retire this video.

[@ozzie8821]

Ty for that What about the compound ? Do we scrape off at some point or leave it and reapply over old compound

[@sharpends4279]

It depends on how much you're using it of course but yes you reapply it when most of the compound has been removed. For me it's anywhere between 5 and 10 knives.