Knife Sharpening Kitchen Paddle Strop - Leather Knife Strop with 8000 Grit Honing Compound - Hand Made in Australia of Eucalyptus Hardwood and Kangaroo Leather

I have some decent knives, ranging from hand-forged Japanese to run of the mill German knives. I hand sharpen on wet stones and never really got into honing rods. For some reason, they never seemed to work right, even when the worked. I recently got deeper into stropping and wanted a one-stop-shop and found this Kangaroo strop. I will say after following the directions to use lard before the compound, my knives came out super sharp. This is not a sharpening device, essentially it is removing imperfections in the blad that dull it, and is best for steals that take a fine polish edge. The strop uses a beautiful recycled wood and Kangaroo leather. I can't imagine they go hunt down Roos, or raise them for leather, but I could be wrong. I hope they don't. Overall a very impressive Australian made the item, and one you should add to your collection if your looking at maintaining an edge.

The product is well made and works well. Now I just need to get the "stropping" motion down so I don't cut the stop with the blade. Doh!

I am old tool & die (30+ years), the son of a watch maker, a gunsmith for 35+ years, and a pretty well - seasoned knife sharpener. Or so I think. lol Through the years my friends have always asked me to sharpen everything. I am always someone that has to get the very inth degree from something and I have the 1500, 500, 8000, and 12000 Shapton stones and pretty fair muscle memory for the angle. Buuut , watching your video(s) (I watched them all) was what really made me buy your strop and compound. I have 5 new Shun Kai knives. Broke down after years of a clutter of "others" and paid the price. I have a "sort of" older razor strop of Pop's and realize what the results of really good stop would be. I wish I could do some How To vids of the machining I do with the ease and geniality you do on yours. From an old Marietta ,Georgia "Southerner", you are a great and fine example of as Aussie "bloke". I was fortunate enough knew a couple in Vietnam and they both were great folks. This old Veteran thanks you for having these and for your interest to make them. The grocery wanted $9.00 for a small jar of lard - can you believe it? Ha! This is The South - me grandmother's used to render it and beef tallow down and save it when I was a kid in the '50's - everyone had a "drippings" container on the back of their stove. I thought I would find a whole small block of it for $1.50. lol Sooo, I had a bottom round roast - thick sucker - to slow grill and pre-cut off the fat and rendered the tallow in an iron skillet, slowly. Cooled it and applied evenly to the strop. It works great and the green rouge went on evenly. My photos may not show it but I was satisfied. I stropped all my Shun's and all I can say is - absolutely Wow! Granted, they were still pretty sharp to begin with, but not like this brought them to be and I can see now how down through the times they aren't, and I have to bring them back up to final stoned, this will be the great final. In getting with the movements at first I did bring the knife back for another stroke a little jerky (spelled not watching what I was doing dumb) and barely shallow sliced the front edge of the leather a bit. But a light coat of this ole glue with a toothpick just sticks it back down, and with a rolling out even with the side of a Pentel pen barrel, it's level and I can't even find the cut anymore. As I say, that was early on, at the first, and I have the stroke down now and it will not be happening anymore. Thank you again for this great strop. It has opened my eyes to a whole new level of sharpness. Will

Absolute rubbish. No leather at all but vinyl glued to a wood stick. Literally tried it out.. and it went straight into the trash. Not good

This works very well. It’s longer and thinner than most backed strops I’ve seen. I have a Tormek T4 for knife sharpening which has a stropping wheel so my knives are extremely sharp when that make it to the kitchen. This has significantly reduced the amount of sharpening I do. I keep it in my kitchen and strop my knives for about 30 seconds before each use. This keeps them razor sharp. It works much better than a honing steel IMO. It should also increase their life considering I’m not removing metal with constant sharpening.

it is leather and it is a strop, but its very low quality for any price especially this price.

Mediocre strop at best. Wood is extremely this and will flex. Leather has a hard time accepting the compound.

I'm delighted to have found this well-made and very useful item. Over the years I'd mistakenly thought that a strop was just for razor blades, and the finishing/maintenance tool for knives was the sharpening steel. Wrong! Sharpening is by definition a destructive process, as it removes metal to establish the edge angle. As such it leaves micro abrasions and irregularities on the blade. After and between sharpening, this strop puts a smooth, polished, and very sharp edge on anything from kitchen knives to hunting knives to pocketknives in just a few strokes. It's much more forgiving than a sharpening steel and will not "roll over" the knife edge by accident. And it is enjoyable to use. I use an EdgePro Sharpening System, and now finish that process with the strop. It greatly extends the time between sharpening. In between I just give the knife a few light strokes on a very fine grit ceramic rod, and finish with the strop to revive the edge. I just bought my second strop for a weekend cabin. The seller is friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. Wish I'd found this years ago.