Another just curious

[lowell holmes]

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?

[glenn bradley]

Leather and green.

[Ray Selinger]

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.

[Jim Koepke]

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

[Terry Beadle]

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

[Shawn Pixley]

I use a piece of wood with leather on one side. Both sides are charged with the green.

[paul cottingham]

Leather and green and maple and green, and an old belt.

[Robert Hazelwood]

Leather stuck to a board, no compound.

[Prashun Patel]

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.

[William Fretwell]

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. :)

[Rob Luter]

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. :)

And I thought I was the only one....

[paul cottingham]

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.

[Stanley Powers]

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!