Trend Premium Leather Strop for Honing & Polishing Your Cutting Tool Blades, DWS/HP/LS

This is a decent strop, clean, thick leather ready to be glued to a piece of wood. I glued the smooth side down using gorilla glue to a piece of scrap pine 2x4, which I then shaped into a paddle with my hatchet. It works very well with some stropping compound on everything from my pocket knife to my axes. It can but cut to a narrower shape if you need to (good for curved blades or small knives), if you have a sharp knife, or you can use it as-is, as I did, if you want to be able to use it with large axe and hatchet heads. I've used an old leather belt in the past as well, and while this works just as well it is much wider and therefore more useful for what I needed.

This strop is good quality consistent leather with no irregularities. It hold polishing compound well.

Leather is soft and consistently thick, and holds sharpening compound well.

This leather strop is exactly what I needed to be able to strop my plane irons, chisels, and kitchen knives. I simply glued this piece of leather to a piece of mahogany board using 2x3g Gorilla Super Glue . This allows me to strop any item I want. I can put the block of wood in my vise and strop away. All I had to do was charge it with a stropping compound and it works great. I have included pictures of edges that I was able to produce using my sharpening plates and this strop. You can see dimensions in the photos I have uploaded. Pros: *Glues well to a board *Great surface for stropping *Nice amount of surface area to strop on Cons: *None Additional Considerations: Be aware, when you order this strop you are simply getting the leather only. All of my pictures show it mounted to a block of wood because I glued it to that block of wood. That will not come with the purchase. Overall: 5/5 stars (>=.5 rounds up, <.5 rounds down) => 5 stars If you have any further questions regarding the product in my review please leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

I've never bought a strop before, but I feel it should be flat. This was not flat. I bathed it in oil, heated it up, and have set heavy weights on top of it, and several weeks later it is a little flatter, but it refuses to flatten out completely.

Not much to say, its big enough for big blades, and the right hardness for my honing style

This is great if you're planning to use it sparingly or somewhat irregularly. If you plan to use it regularly, at least a few times a day, it will last you a couple of months with proper care before it needs replaced. After a few weeks of use, its quality as a strop deteriorated noticeably. At this point, a few months after purchase, it's not useful anymore. It certainly gave us $10 in value, but we may have been better off spending a bit more on a higher quality product.

I don't understand the negative reviews for this product. The leather is great quality for its intended use and the perfect size for stropping a medium or even large size blade. I purchased this with Woodstock D2902 1-Pound Extra Fine Buffing Compound, Green and has worked very well to bring my knives to a mirror finish and a razor sharp edge. Its a good quality piece of leather and works very well. I'd be quick to recommend this to a friend.

El producto es muy bien, me sirvio bien para afilar mis formones. Llegaron 2 productos, justo como lo pedi!

works great for maintaining an edge without taking it to a stone, as a strop should

Good

Using it with finishing wax n it helped to get mirror like finish n scary sharp edge

I bought this with the Trend Diamond Stone and as a complete system it makes this novice woodworker look like an expert after the first sharpening attempt. What a moment of joy it was when my old chisel that I was practising on actually did the paper cut thing. And in the middle of the current pandemic I was surprised at how reasonably quickly I received it here in Australia from America - well done to all those involved