The Knife Thread - Pocket Knives, Kitchen Knives, Knife skills- and everything in between -A place to discuss your knife layout and use

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My seax from Bohemond. I think the left big one is Tod Cutler.
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I've decided to not worry about leather or wood strops if I'm doing freehand sharpening. I discovered that running light alternating edge-trailing passes on my final stone or a ceramic stone deals with the burr rather well. It's not that strops don't work, rather I don't see they do anything better than what I just described. I've been experimenting with this on razors/kamisoris, kitchen knives, EDC stuff, utility blades, big choppers, etc. It all works.

If I'm running powered stuff I'll just use one my stropping belts with diamond emulsion sprays.
 
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