Hi, I'm Chris and I make knives. In today's video we going to cover the leather stropping wheel.
Knife Sharpening Tools - Leather Stropping Wheel.
So this is how I strop my knives this is an 8 inch leather wheel.
It's put on my buffer.
The buffer runs 1800 rpm.
This is how I strop my knives on the cutting edge.
What you have to do is you have to maintain this leather to keep it from getting hard and brittle.
You have to keep the leather soft supple.
You don't want this leather to get hard and crack on you. So you have to keep the leather soft
You can maintain that by just using machine oil.
I normally use three-in-one oil.
Some people don't like the smell of that, so they use mineral oil.
You can also use oils that you use on your baseball gloves, but you want to keep this wheel soft.
You don't want it to get hard and then crack.
When you first get your wheel, you want to put machine oil on the leather stropping wheel.
Several times before you apply the honing compound
This will help preserve the life of your wheel.
This is honing compound.
From the company tormek.
They make a very nice sharpener; made in Sweden.
You put this on the leather wheel.
You just need a little bit.
About like, you know... the size of toothpaste.
about like that.
About like that and now we're going to spread this... all across the wheel.
*spreading the honing compound*
SAFTEY
A few words of safety before we begin the buffer is one of the more dangerous tools a knife maker uses.
So you want to stay below center of the axis of your wheel.
So as this thing rotates... if it was to grab your knife, it would throw the knife away from you.
Don't be up here or it'll throw the knife into your belly. That can kill you, and knife makers have been killed with buffers.
Of course you want to wear PPE? (personal protective equipment)
Have a lot of ventilation wear a respirator.
Take off any kind of jewelry; beware of your hoodie strings.
Don't wear gloves at this machine; it can pull your fingers off.
Also don't turn the cutting edge into the wheel.
Be sure that the cutting edge is going in the direction, away from you.
These buffers are dangerous.
A lot of people don't think about them.
The buffers are one of the more dangerous tools in the shop.
Because once you start to use them you have a sharpened blade in your hands. It is no longer a dull piece of steel.
It is a sharpened knife, it can hurt you. So just be very careful when you're using your buffer.
If you guys can see it
Here's how my cutting edge is currently, and this is to 1600 grit.
What I'm going to do now is try to get a mirror finish with this leather wheel.
So I'm gonna stand to the side, and keep my mouth shut.
Here we go.
*click*
*motor humming*
*sound of knife sharpening*
*sound of knife sharpening*
Reminder, Remember to turn on your ventilation.
*sound of knife stropping*
I like to alternate back and forth so that I'm removing the burr.
You guys can see what this looks like.
Now its a very shiny cutting edge.
Now we'll test it on some paper.
This is just some magazine paper
*click*
*sound of razor sharp knife*
So, yeah that knife is very sharp, I like it.
Now I'll show you with the magnifying glass what that actually does.
You can see, It's a very shiny cutting edge now
So I'm going to try to show you guys the difference here real quick between the knife, I have not stropped and the knife I just did strop.
And I i'm going to use the magnifier here.
So
What you're looking at on the bottom is the knife I have stropped in the top line is the knife
I have not stropped you can see with this magnifier the difference in the cutting edge.
So there you go. It's cutting up magazine papers. It's a sharp knife.
And this leather wheel, I really like it!
I even like it better than the cardboard wheels to be honest, and I will show you the cardboard wheels in a future video.
Also, I use a wicked edge and I will also show that in a future video
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Thanks for spending 6 minutes with me
Knife Sharpening Tools - Leather Stropping Wheel End.
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