ROUND Leather Honing Strop uses a good quality leather, bonded onto a wooden dowel.
Available in seven useful diameters:
- 10mm (3/8") dia
- 14mm (9/16") dia
- 16mm (5/8") dia
- 19mm (3/4") dia
- 23mm (7/8") dia
- 27mm (1 1/16") dia
- 30mm (1 3/16") dia
- Set of 4 strops (1x14mm, 1x19mm, 1x22mm, 1x30mm)
Diameter dimensions are approximate.
SELECT FROM THE DROP-DOWN BOX ABOVE.
Having a few different sizes of ROUND Leather Honing Strop in your sharpening kit is very useful. This allows you to better match the curve of your crook knives, gouges and adzes.
Use at the final stage of getting a really sharp edge on any tool. Use in conjunction with honing paste.
Rub a small amount of honing paste into the leather then carefully and firmly draw the hone away from the tools edge. Maintain the flatness of the tools inside face.
This round honing leather is ideal to remove the final remnants of the burr on the inside curve of tools such as crook knives, gouges and curved gouges
Made from 200mm (8") x 2mm thick leather, securely bonded on to a wooden dowel.
The dowel is 300mm (12") long.