Leather Knife Strop Compounds, Grits, and Colors Explained
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Explore leather stopping compounds and understand their colors, compositions, and grit so you can choose the best compound for your crafting needs.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Stropping
01:12 - Sharpening Stones
02:10 - Stropping Compounds
03:14 - Compound Colors
04:17 - Metal types
04:46 - Formulas
05:14 - Grit
07:08 Example Summary
07:58 Conclusion
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Many thanks for the video!
You're very welcome! Thanks for taking a moment to comment 😃
So I’ve been using a green stropping compound for my work sharp elite sharpening system. I just bought a red .5 micron compound and a white 2.5 micron compound. What’s the grit difference between the two?
Hello 😀 Best would be to check with the manufacturer of the compound as they might have the most accruate reference.
Aside from that, there are general grit to micron conversion tables (lots on google) where an approximation can be derived, which might be good depending what the use is.
grrreat I have piles of old compounds of all the usual colors, but have no way of knowing what grit they are. ☹
pitch'em all and start over?
Hey 😃 It might depend on intended use. If it's just to keep regular knives useful and sharp, then it might work just to experiment with them and see what works best over time.
If looking to use them for very specific purposes or for very valuable blades, then it might be helpful to know more exactly what they are.
And maybe it's possible to know where some came from, could be a way to identify a manufacturer and their color uses.
If it's one of those fun piles of things accumulated over the years 😃 there's probably some good use for them.
Great video for complete mis-information, just exactly where did you get the "grit size" for the Dialux range shown? It certainly wasn't from Osborn the makers of these compounds, each of these compounds are for different materials and the 3 that you showed are all used for final polishing on different metals (The green is no where near a 30,000 grit equivalent, these figures that you grabbed out of thin air are outrageous to the point of laughable considering the Osborn don't give this in ANY of their literature on the site/product. You could have just condensed this entire video by saying that a 6-8 micron diamond paste or emulsion could be used with a final 1-2 micron emulsion-paste for high mirror finish.
Hey 😃 Thanks for sharing your thoughts
Well most carbides in steels (especially vanadium carbides) are way harder than any of these sharpening particals (aluminum-, iron- and chromium-oxide). Thus for anything other than very simple cheap steels you actually need diamond emulsions to strop the edges (and also need to use diamond abrasives to sharpen as otherways you cause carbide tearout and fatigue the steel which leads to a weak edge and subpar edgeholding).
Hello 😃, that's a very excellent point how the blade composition can be an initial factor in compound choice.
Are there any diamond emulsions or abrasives you would recommend? Thanks
@@internationalleatherclub for diamond emulsions Sroppystuff has the best ones by far. Second best would be gunny juice. For sharpening stones there are many options. Dmt and atoma both make good diamond plates. If you want higher finishes you should look at resinbonded diamond stones like venev or naniwa makes them.
With steels like 145cm or s30v you might get away with aluminum oxide stones. For anything like m390/cv20, m4, s90v, s110v, k390 or magnacut you should do full diamond sharpenings (diamond stones and diamond emulsions for stropping)
@@internationalleatherclubStroppy Stuff is amazing because its dyed so you know what strop you are using if you have multiple. I use balsa wood and basswood strops with the Stroppy Stuff on it.
@@TheGuidedSharpeningGuide Thanks for the recommendation, it looks like they have some great stuff. I like how their honing oil is plant based, and the detail on their product descriptions and formulations. I'll check out some more, I appreciate it
@@internationalleatherclub your welcome. I personally use 6 micron for a really toothy edge, 4 micron for a glossy satin using the 6 first than the 4 to finish it on, if im going for a mirror finish i have the 1 micron and i use it in a progression from 6 to 4 to 1.