Stropping Compound Grit Size. Let's check the best stropping compound in 2020. Knife sharpeners and stone formats compatibility chart. Cbn compound can be used with any strop made of smooth or coarse leather, balsa or felt.
Do i need a compound?
Which means they work faster but produce edges that are less finely polished. Available in both paste and spray forms, diamond compounds come in different micron sizes for different applications and are reserved for the serious straight razor user. I thought the green honing compound was 0.5 microns average grit size. Alternative stropping compound question (self.bushcraft). Strop sharpening abrasive polishing compounds wax leathercraft green leather. The advantage to carvers is that with a strop you can sharpen faster and much easier than you can with stones. A strop can be used without any compound. You use 250, then 800 and 1200 grit stones to grind and hone, followed by 15000 grit stropping to when it comes to particle size as you rightly say i have used 250, 800 and 1,200.