diff --git a/personal/sharpening/Stropping.md b/personal/sharpening/Stropping.md index 67730fb..fe95926 100644 --- a/personal/sharpening/Stropping.md +++ b/personal/sharpening/Stropping.md @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ + + (pts 1-4) + There are two categories of stropping, stropping on a clean substrate, and stropping on a substrate with compound. Stropping is done to reduce the width of the edge, and to help remove and align any burrs along the edge. @@ -12,6 +15,8 @@ Stropping on a clean substrate achieves 4 things: With a loaded strop, abrasive compound is applied to the strop to increase the rate of abrasion. This compound is applied with the goal of reducing the width of the edge without the formation of a foil-edge burr. Loaded stropping tends to produce a micro-convex edge, meaning it's shaped a little bit like a teardrop, where it curves outwards from a straight angle the farther away from the vertex the edge goes. This effect is generally desirable. The effect of stropping happens quickly, within 3-30 laps, and 10 laps being the minimum needed to achieve the desired effect. Stropping past 30 achieves minimal change, and stopping past the hundreds may introduce a burr again. + +It was generally noted that when stropping with a very fine compound (eg, 0.25 micron), a small but consistent burr would form. When stropping with a coarse compound, a larger burr would occur, but one that formed unevenly. To achieve the best of both worlds, it's suggested that you start stropping with a coarse compound, then move to a fine compound. ## Strop Material There are a variety of stropping materials available for use, common materials include leather, denim, newspaper, washcloth, and balsa wood. ### Balsa @@ -33,4 +38,4 @@ Mono crystalline diamond stropping compound comes in a wide variety of grit size | 0.25 micron | After 10 laps on a bovine leather strop, it did not sufficiently remove the bur. With 100 laps, it got closer, but a noticeable bur was still present. 0.25 micron appears to remove material very slowly, almost too slowly, but it produces a fine finish. | | 0.5 micron | After 10 laps on bovine leather, significantly more abrasion occurred than with the 0.25 micron compound. No significant change in edge geometry was noted compared to use of the 0.25 micron stropping compound. | | | | -| 10 micron | When stropping with 10 micron compound, it was noted that the entire bevel began to convex, and significant removal rate occured. | \ No newline at end of file +| 10 micron | When stropping with 10 micron compound, it was noted that the entire bevel began to convex, and significant removal rate occurred. Large burrs were left on parts of the edge, but further stropping on linen and clean leather would remove those burrs. | \ No newline at end of file