Excellent tool for honing
This hone is a good, solid addition to my sharpening tools collection. Here are some key points:
1. It is not a leather hone. It has a rubber or silicone synthetic surface which is perfectly flat. This should actually help with the honing process as it is actually flatter than leather since there is very little texture. The absence of texture is a little odd to me. Doesn't affect performance with honing compound sticks. Doesn't work so well with honing powder though, at least in my usage so far.
2. It is larger than I thought it would be. About 14" long including the handle and 3" wide.
3. One side is rounded, which helps when honing curved blades or the concave side of carving chisels.
4. The end has a 45 degree bevel which could be useful for honing serrations, potentially. (That seems like it would be incredibly tedious)
non leather strop
I am a vegetarian. This strop is resilient and allows sufficient downward pressure on chisels and carving gouges to create good edges. The chromium oxide medium leaves a crayon-like surface slick which occasionally has to be scraped off. I can deal with this.
Buy it.
I've used this a few times now and I'm impressed. I've used wax bound green compound. It does build up a residue but it is useable. I do plan on switching to powdered compound. This synthetic material is top notch.
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