When honing edges I use mdf charged with green honing compound. Prior to this, I used leather on a board charged with green honing compound.
What do you use?
When honing edges I use mdf charged with green honing compound. Prior to this, I used leather on a board charged with green honing compound.
What do you use?
Leather and green.
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg".
– Samuel Butler
For hand use, there is a plywood covered with paper used for painted signs and Lee Valley's green compound. I think it's chromium oxide.
Various pieces of leather and green compound from a lapidary supply store.
Usually the leather is supported on my drill press table for flat edges. For shaped edges various pieces of shaped wood are used with a flexible piece of leather to match the shape of the blade.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I use rock maple flattened via a smoother and verified via certified straight edge.
Then rubbed with green compound and a dab or three of half micron diamond dust.
So far it's lasted over a year with just a little refresh of green compound.
I've also created one with white compound and it is used after the green compound hone.
Then if I'm crazy ( often are...hoot!) I use some newspaper for final very lite polishing.
Works great.
Enjoy the shavings
I use a piece of wood with leather on one side. Both sides are charged with the green.
Shawn
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"I resent having to use my brain to do your thinking"
Leather and green and maple and green, and an old belt.
Paul
Leather stuck to a board, no compound.
Horse butt scraps taped to a beech block. Chromium oxide on one, nothing on another. A piece of hard maple with some croxide also. Personally I prefer the maple best but for no good reason. It just feels the best. Don't go by me.
I use Rolls Royce seat leather offcuts stretch glued to planed flat quarter sawn maple that I keep in a temperature & humidity controlled cabinet with some green stuff.
I forgot to note, all my strops are anchored to my bench, facing magnetic north-south (I realign them regularly) to keep the bits of leather standing true.
Dont laugh. It works.
Ok ok laugh a little.
Paul
Leather and white compound. A bit more coarse that the green, buy rarely do I have to use stones to maintain an edge on all my tools. Easier to stay sharp that to get sharp!