Thank you so much for your help with all of your videos. I’ve achieved some fantastic results thanks to you. You’re a key member of the Knife community 👍
Oh man was it a relief to see you do a video on these I'm finally getting used to the edge pro but now I'm learning about stroping and Ive been looking at these 🤟
Im a professional knife, razor, tool, and axe sharpener all free hand. I was wondering about these before as pertaining tword knives and razors. I like the sound of how they are made and may now give the finer micron a try
I’m a freehand stropper as well, I was curious about the jende strops. I use leather double sided, one side smooth the other suede and I use the gunny juice 2 micron then 1 micron. Both sides same compound. I use large strops so it takes a bit of the gunny juice but man, I can use that leather strop for a very long time because of the gunny juice. I m curious about the jende strops but the results I get with mine are amazing.
The Jende nanocloth is very thirsty. So it takes a lot of product. They can give a really great polish. People tend to either really like them or hate them. They polish well, but take a light touch or slightly different angle. So some tend to dull their edges on them.
You know.....this is all just an intellectual exercise. Because taking the same knife sharpened to the same grit I would bet anybody if they could tell any difference in actual useable functionality in a blind test cutting a piece of leather, a piece of rope, a piece of leather they could tell which type of strop and or compound was used. Because outside of talking about it it's all about actual useable functionality.
Great videos, thank you. I'm trying to take my stropping to the next level but have a limited budget. What would be your suggestion for a good all around stropping setup? Thank you for any advice you can give.
If I had to pick 3 different ones I would pick 3, 1 and 0.5 myself. If only 2 then I would pick 1 and 0.5um. I would put those on basswood or balsa that I would get at Hobby Lobby. That would be the cheapest most effective way to go IMO.
Do you prefer the Jende diamond compounds for stropping? Recently I made some strops in Ken Schwartz 1 micron CBN and others in Jende 0.5 micron diamond. It's kinda hard to explain but I feel like the diamond is leaving more bite to the edge even at the lower micron size. Really thinking in making more stops with the Jende sprays. What would your first strop be after the 1500 KME diamond for an aggressive edge (not worried about polishing).
I prefer diamond over CBN for stropping compounds. Diamonds leave more bite because they cut deeper. The abrasive might be the same size, but the cutting facets or the points on the diamonds cause deeper scratches. I like Jende’s and Ken’s diamond emulsions. Jende’s Max cut faster than any so they give that bite quicker.
The diamond is slightly more aggressive. The Jende nanocloth is inferior too the Schwartz stuff though. It has little craters that collect the abrasive particles and make them act like one larger particle. The Schwartz nanocloth does not do this.
Saddedude According to Ken. I have Ken’s also and I’m going to do a video on his. To be unbiased I can get as good of results from either. They work differently. That’s why I’m doing videos separately. At some point I can do a side by side but end results are pretty equal. Whether either of them want to admit it. Ken’s tends to be more difficult for new sharpeners that I talk to. Ken’s feels like there’s less drag. And a recent one that I got from him seems to be better than some of the others. That might just be that I have a lot more experience with the nanocloths than I did at first.
Devil dog , can you explain how you clamp that pm2 in that clamp for the tsprof ? I just got one and I'm having issues with that clamp. Because the flat grind the knife wants to rock up and down in the clamp.
@GunnysSharptalk that's so cool, thanks for your products. Also, could I ask you your thoughts on Stroppy stuff compounds and Jende Max concentration emulsions?
@@lvl18abilities they both work. Jende is a polycrystalline diamond and Stroppy Stuff is a mono crystalline diamond compound. I don’t compare my products to other products because I don’t feel like my thoughts on the differences would come across as biased and feel that would be unprofessional on my part. I let my products speak for themselves. To be fair I haven’t compared Jende to Stroppy Stuff in side by side testing. I personally prefer polycrystalline over mono crystalline myself. My products are very versatile. Allowing for a high polish while keeping “bite” so to speak to the edge. Stroppy Stuff is a little cheaper than Jende’s polycrystalline diamonds but to be fair mono crystalline diamonds cost about half as much to produce and purchase than polycrystalline diamonds do. So that accounts for the lower price. I wish I could give you a better answer, but I don’t want to come across like I am saying anything negative about the competition. Competition is good for the community and all three products have their place. It all depends on what your sharpening goals are. I will say that Gunny Juice checks all the boxes for me. I would use Stroppy Stuff for burr removal and touching up edges. I would use Jende for polishing and burr removal. I use Gunny Juice for both, but I developed it for that versatility.
Thank you for the video
Thank you so much for your help with all of your videos. I’ve achieved some fantastic results thanks to you. You’re a key member of the Knife community 👍
Thank you for the feedback. I really appreciate it.
Oh man was it a relief to see you do a video on these I'm finally getting used to the edge pro but now I'm learning about stroping and Ive been looking at these 🤟
If you have any questions message me on FB messenger anytime. I am more than happy to help you.
Thank you for the video! Your content is amazing, it helped me a lot
Thanks. I really appreciate the feedback
You're Slovak or Czech aren't you😉?
Im a professional knife, razor, tool, and axe sharpener all free hand. I was wondering about these before as pertaining tword knives and razors. I like the sound of how they are made and may now give the finer micron a try
I’m a freehand stropper as well, I was curious about the jende strops. I use leather double sided, one side smooth the other suede and I use the gunny juice 2 micron then 1 micron. Both sides same compound. I use large strops so it takes a bit of the gunny juice but man, I can use that leather strop for a very long time because of the gunny juice. I m curious about the jende strops but the results I get with mine are amazing.
The Jende nanocloth is very thirsty. So it takes a lot of product. They can give a really great polish. People tend to either really like them or hate them. They polish well, but take a light touch or slightly different angle. So some tend to dull their edges on them.
Thanks for the vid mate, could you show how you load the nano strops?
It’s the same way that I loaded them in the video I did on Jende nanocloth and their emulsions
You know.....this is all just an intellectual exercise. Because taking the same knife sharpened to the same grit I would bet anybody if they could tell any difference in actual useable functionality in a blind test cutting a piece of leather, a piece of rope, a piece of leather they could tell which type of strop and or compound was used. Because outside of talking about it it's all about actual useable functionality.
Great videos, thank you. I'm trying to take my stropping to the next level but have a limited budget. What would be your suggestion for a good all around stropping setup? Thank you for any advice you can give.
If I had to pick 3 different ones I would pick 3, 1 and 0.5 myself. If only 2 then I would pick 1 and 0.5um. I would put those on basswood or balsa that I would get at Hobby Lobby. That would be the cheapest most effective way to go IMO.
@@GunnysSharptalk Thank you for the advice, I appreciate it.
@@oldstersoutside674 np. I appreciate the support
Do you prefer the Jende diamond compounds for stropping? Recently I made some strops in Ken Schwartz 1 micron CBN and others in Jende 0.5 micron diamond. It's kinda hard to explain but I feel like the diamond is leaving more bite to the edge even at the lower micron size. Really thinking in making more stops with the Jende sprays. What would your first strop be after the 1500 KME diamond for an aggressive edge (not worried about polishing).
I prefer diamond over CBN for stropping compounds. Diamonds leave more bite because they cut deeper. The abrasive might be the same size, but the cutting facets or the points on the diamonds cause deeper scratches. I like Jende’s and Ken’s diamond emulsions. Jende’s Max cut faster than any so they give that bite quicker.
The diamond is slightly more aggressive. The Jende nanocloth is inferior too the Schwartz stuff though. It has little craters that collect the abrasive particles and make them act like one larger particle.
The Schwartz nanocloth does not do this.
Saddedude According to Ken. I have Ken’s also and I’m going to do a video on his. To be unbiased I can get as good of results from either. They work differently. That’s why I’m doing videos separately. At some point I can do a side by side but end results are pretty equal. Whether either of them want to admit it. Ken’s tends to be more difficult for new sharpeners that I talk to. Ken’s feels like there’s less drag. And a recent one that I got from him seems to be better than some of the others. That might just be that I have a lot more experience with the nanocloths than I did at first.
And to be fair Jende’s experienced sharpeners take more time to adapt to.
Is that a K390 PM2?
Yes
Devil dog , can you explain how you clamp that pm2 in that clamp for the tsprof ? I just got one and I'm having issues with that clamp. Because the flat grind the knife wants to rock up and down in the clamp.
I will do a quick tech tip video on it for you
Nick B Tech tip video is posted
Nick B if it rocks you’re either too deep or not deep enough in the clamp.
So is it really 0.025 microns?
I can say Gunny Juice is actually that low of micron size. I didn’t have the others from Jende or Ken Schwartz tested. So I am going by their word
@@GunnysSharptalk are you the same person that makes gunny juice by any chance?
@@lvl18abilities yes sir I am
@GunnysSharptalk that's so cool, thanks for your products. Also, could I ask you your thoughts on Stroppy stuff compounds and Jende Max concentration emulsions?
@@lvl18abilities they both work. Jende is a polycrystalline diamond and Stroppy Stuff is a mono crystalline diamond compound. I don’t compare my products to other products because I don’t feel like my thoughts on the differences would come across as biased and feel that would be unprofessional on my part. I let my products speak for themselves. To be fair I haven’t compared Jende to Stroppy Stuff in side by side testing. I personally prefer polycrystalline over mono crystalline myself. My products are very versatile. Allowing for a high polish while keeping “bite” so to speak to the edge. Stroppy Stuff is a little cheaper than Jende’s polycrystalline diamonds but to be fair mono crystalline diamonds cost about half as much to produce and purchase than polycrystalline diamonds do. So that accounts for the lower price. I wish I could give you a better answer, but I don’t want to come across like I am saying anything negative about the competition. Competition is good for the community and all three products have their place. It all depends on what your sharpening goals are. I will say that Gunny Juice checks all the boxes for me. I would use Stroppy Stuff for burr removal and touching up edges. I would use Jende for polishing and burr removal. I use Gunny Juice for both, but I developed it for that versatility.