BACHER Stropping Leather DIY Knife Strop Kit for Sharpening and Honing Knives, Woodcarving Chisels Tool Premium 206mm x 56mm, Polishing Compound Set Easy to use 3M Adhesive Tape

MOUNT IT YOUR WAY: A sheet of 3M 468MP adhesive film comes with the leather rather than stuck to it, so you decide which face ends up on top. Glue the suede side down and work on the smooth grain for the finest finish, or glue the grain down and use the suede for coarser compounds. Press it onto a paddle, an offcut of hardwood, MDF, acrylic, a plane sole or the lid of your tool box - no glue pot, no clamps, no drying time. Or skip mounting altogether and use the strip flat on the bench. And if you already own a paddle whose hide is worn through or hardened, this is the replacement skin for it. 3 MM COWHIDE, 206 X 56 MM: The same full-grain hide as the Bacher paddle strop, hand-made in Poland - tanned with tree bark in Podhale to a recipe used there since the 17th century, cut to 206 x 56 mm (8.11 x 2.17 in) and a full 3 mm (1/8 in) thick. Thickness decides the result: thin, soft hide sinks under the blade and rounds the very apex you are trying to refine. Both faces work - the smooth grain side for the final polish, the suede side for the coarser compounds. FOUR GRITS, NOT ONE: Four 7 g compounds are included - Red approx. 2000 (medium), White approx. 5000 (fine), Green approx. 8000 (very fine) and Black approx. 12000 (ultra fine). Around 1 g covers one side, so each pot is good for roughly seven coats. Every one of them carries lanolin and beeswax: the pastes are not only abrasive, they nourish and soften the hide at every stropping and keep it from drying out and cracking, which adds years to its life. Top up every 30 to 50 sharpenings; after 300 to 500 you can sand back to bare leather and start over. KNIVES, CHISELS, RAZORS: Kitchen and chef's knives, pocket, hunting and bushcraft blades, whittling knives, wood carving gouges and V-tools, bench chisels, plane irons, scissors, and straight razors for wet shaving. Pull the blade backwards, spine first, under light pressure, at the same angle you sharpened at or a fraction shallower - ten to twenty passes and the wire edge is gone. Far less steel comes off than a stone takes, so stropping does not shorten the life of the blade. 5 ML BALM INCLUDED: A 5 ml softening balm with lanolin and beeswax comes with the kit. Stropping hide dries out, hardens and cracks with use, and a hardened surface stops taking compound; the balm feeds it so it stays supple. Rub a little in before the first use, then every one to two years - worth doing even if the strop has been resting. Made in Poland.