Strop
Images and text by Garry
Harrison,
Head, Circulating Collections Conservation,
Indiana
University Libraries Preservation Department
Strop
This doesn't have to be
anything fancy; this strop was made by gluing a piece of leather to a
double-thickness piece of binders board, and it works fine. It is charged
with metal polish, and following final whetting with the sharpening
stones it removes the last of the burrs and wire edge and brings the
surfaces of the bevel and back side of the blade to a
mirror-polish.
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