This beautiful quality Italian leather paddle strop pairs perfectly with the 'Strop It' compound bar to rejuvenate the edge on finely honed cutting tools.
The leather is carefully selected for smoothness and uniformity and supported on a solid beech base that can either be held by the handle, clamped in a vice or screwed down to a work surface.
Rather than removing metal, stropping with chromium oxide smooths, polishes and refines the cutting edge; not unlike the effect water has on clay.
Chromium Oxide (Cr2O3 ) is a superfine, 0.3 micron, polycrystalline abrasive, it is the mineral that gives green polishing compound it's colour. Most polishing compositions include a comparatively high proportion of wax as they are intended for powered use, proper stropping compound has more mineral and less binder making it substantially faster to get a good result.
The most effective way we've found to apply the compound is to scribble across the leather in a cross hatch pattern.
For most people this bar will be a lifetime's supply.
- Dimensions (leather surface single sided): 75mm x 250mm
- Bar: 170g
- Approx: 120mm x 30mm x 25mm