Veg or chrome tanned gentlemen? The previous skins I have ordered have been chrome tanned, I just ordered a veg tanned pigskin and am anxious to try it out.
A tip from a friend: hone your scalpel blades, crazy how much sharper that you can get them and how much longer that they last.
As far as I know, chrome tanned is very stiff and not for this kind of work, always use veg tanned.
Any suggestion on how to hone new scalpel blades???
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Of course!!! I love Rioja wine. But trust me in Spain there are many many good wines other than Rioja, There are so many people in this forum I owe them a lot!!! great information and always willing to help.
Most of the skins offered here are chrome tanned, they work as can be seen above but better options may exist.
I should have said scalpel blades can be stropped, not honed, on a piece of leather with compound added. Same technique for keeping inletting chisels razor sharp.
Most of the skins offered here are chrome tanned, they work as can be seen above but better options may exist.
I should have said scalpel blades can be stropped, not honed, on a piece of leather with compound added. Same technique for keeping inletting chisels razor sharp.
I am not a leather option. Best way is to try 2 versions and see which one is best.
Yes I have seen people using leather to sharpen knives, but never tried it. Would like to see a video on the process. I am sure it is great way of sharpening the blades for the skiving machine and Xcto blades
The polishing compound added to the leather is what does the job. There are a bunch of videos on Youtube about stropping blades. I just bought a strop kit from ebay for very little. It is quite simple really, and it does make a big difference.
I've got a little 1x30 harbor freight grinder with a leather belt and also a leather wheel on a slow grinder. they make keeping an edge sharp between full sharpening sessions quick and easy.
but the same can be done with a scrap of leather and some polishing compound. You are just polishing edge (between sharpening ) and also removing any remaining burr when used at the end of sharpening.
Linen was also used on razor strops, mostly by barbers. They used straight razors and stropped them numerous times a day.
I have an old . . .nay, very old razor strop that has a leather strop and a linen strop joined at the top, with a swivel. I have not a clue as to the age of it, but at the top it is stamped "Independent Russia".
If I can remember I'll get a pic of it for posting here.
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