Angerstone Professional Double side Leather Strop Kit(Knife Stropping Leather）with buffing Compound- knife strop for Sharpening Knives, Wood Carving Chisels, Straight Razor

First strop I've tried so quite honestly took a bit to learn the best process to get it down. I watched some videos, decided to give a strop a try in combination with the Work Sharp Precision Sharpener which, is good also. At first, I was getting a bit confused as to why I wasn't getting blades "shaving sharp" with the two, I could get them vastly sharper than to begin with, but was leaving something to be desired. I'd been using the green compound on half the "rough side" of the strop then finishing it on the smooth side. For a while it would only make the blade slightly better than the work sharp alone.Once i started to apply a small amount of the green to the smooth side, and figuring out the angle as best i could it really began to improve things. I think the two keys to best results are the angle and then the amount of pressure you use to strop. Most instructions will tell you to use light pressure, however from my experience using medium to even a bit more pressure while stropping really seems to make a difference, and with that and the angle finally got the "shaving" sharp result I'd been looking for.I have yet to try with any oil, seems like a mess so trying to avoid but once this one gets a bit more use maybe i'll also try it. For this strop, I'm giving it give stars since it seems like perfectly fine leather, not sure how much better they can be only having the one. So far but seems perfectly fine once you get the technique down, works like a champ! I think it's good to just also point out you really should not need to add much of the paste, for me I only put it on half of the side and if you put too much on, you'll just end up scraping it off while you work.Side note, I am not entirely sure why people are saying they are mounting this in place on a board... Do you know you can buy them already like that if you wanted that? I actually found it handy to have it loose, and use it on a hard surface when you are ready.

I ordered two of these items. The description indicated that the set included: one 7.9x3 inches vegetable tanned leather honing strips, one 3.9x3 inches strop. Both of the items were shipped without the 3.9x3 inches strop. I am not sure that the smaller strop would be that useful, but it was included for the price I paid. On one side of one strop there was glue. You may find that some cleaning is needed before use.

I bought this strop kit for sharpening/honing my knife collection. The instructions are kind of vague. It doesn’t really go into using the compounding sticks, which are included. But I found a couple of YouTube videos which helped. It’s a good value. Takes some practice, but does a nice job polishing the edges after applied to a whetstone.

works great! adds the perfect edge. easy to use. great price. I would buy again but I don't think that I'll ever need another strop

I used the strop on several knives I thought were sharp. It made quite a difference. The leather is pliable and suites the task. Its a good product reasonable priced.

This is a great kit! Bought it to polish the edge of my leather knives and was very surprised. The leather is very high quality, even without the compound, it makes the knives razor sharp.

Works well for the final polishing of chisels. also flexible enough to strop the inner bevel of a gouge chisel, which is very useful.

I never tried it yet. But from previous experience stroping, it should work very well. Since the leather is a very even thickness and very good quality.