Description In the last 5 years MPOWER has added a leather strop as an accessory to our FASTTRACK chisel sharpener. We also included one on the back of our Knife Sharpener. Both easily removed the wire and seemed to finish the blade edge well enough. CUSTOMER FEEDBACK Having received feedback from a couple of customers questioning why we didn’t either recommend using an abrasive wax stick or simply supply them, we decided to investigate further, testing every conceivable colour, grade and quality of wax abrasive stick available on both our knife sharpener and chisel sharpener. Although we can’t offer an accurate percentage based improvement on sharpness of a blade edge; as it’s not easy to measure that….. We can say in unequivocal terms, that these wax sticks “appreciably improve the quality and fineness of the blade edge AKA they “Freekin work big time” When I first tried our wax stick on the Knife sharpener, “Stunning!!” was the only word that came to mind as to just how much sharper the Knife edges had become. That’s why we’re supplying ALL our NEW 8” Freestyle Stones with “On board” magnetic leather strop covers” and one of the 3 different grades of our Wax Bars matched according to the grade of Diamond Stone supplied. STROPPING VERSUS WATERSTONES So much has been written and argued over the various benefits of different sharpening methods. A favourite topic debated is “What’s the best way to finish a freshly ground tool blade edge.” There appears to be 2 camps, fans of the Japanese Waterstones; who do indeed create an edge fit for surgery versus the fans of the Leather Strop and Wax Stick. Who as far as we could see, produced equally fine blade edges. So what was the decider, What brought us down firmly in stropping camp. The reasons were many but the main thing was how much less mess was made and how quick and convenient stropping was over Waterstones. No maintenance required, No water, No containers, No Lapping Stones needed just and that’s just for storage and flattening.
