diff --git a/personal/sharpening/Stropping.md b/personal/sharpening/Stropping.md index ebd5357..6d4a083 100644 --- a/personal/sharpening/Stropping.md +++ b/personal/sharpening/Stropping.md @@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ There are a variety of stropping materials available for use, common materials i ### Balsa Because balsa wood is rigid and nearly incompressible, stropping on balsa produces minimal convexity. Micro convexity is still achieved. ### Nanocloth -Nanocloth is a soft, flexible material mounted on a hard, flat glass substrate. It's a synthetic polishing cloth sold by Ken Schwartz. +Nanocloth is a soft, flexible material mounted on a hard, flat glass substrate. It's a synthetic polishing cloth sold by Ken Schwartz. It appears to achieve slightly more micro convexity than the balsa substrate. + +## Latigo (Bovine) Leather ## Compound material ### Chromium Oxide Chromium Oxide (green, waxy substance) is probably the most common stropping compound. While it's moderately effective, there are better options, and it's generally recommended that if you strop a blade on a chromium oxide loaded strop, you follow it up with fine abrasive or a clean leather strop. ## Mono-diamond -Mono crystalline diamond stropping compound comes in a wide variety of grit sizes, ranging from 0.1 micron, all the way up past 20 micron. \ No newline at end of file +Mono crystalline diamond stropping compound comes in a wide variety of grit sizes, ranging from 0.1 micron, all the way up past 20 micron.