I received a KME a couple weeks back. For the first time last night I had some time to get serious with it. I spent a couple of hours sharpening old broadheads to give me a little practice on technique and to just figure the thing out. After my final pass on the last stone I could tell the heads were right on the edge of being hair popping sharp, but I couldn't get them their with just the stone. I am sure with more practice I will. However, I pulled out my leather strop and used the KME sharpener to run the heads a couple of passes over the strop and BINGO!! I got some major bald spots on my arms and legs. I finally had to quit shaving my arms cause I was going to get questions. The heads will plow hair after I put them on the leather strop. I am still going to work with getting them this sharp with just the stones but I can't imagine it would hurt to put them across the leather strop a couple of passes as a final step.

I talked to Ron this afternoon about the knife sharpener.  Nice guy!  Anyhow, I asked him about stropping after using the fine hone.  He said that he just uses stiff cardboard as a strop, and that it works incredibly well.  I plan on ordering one soon so I will be able to give it a try pretty soon.

hmmm...stiff cardboard.
running it back into the blade, sharp end to back, or vice versa?  gonna go try that right now...

By golly, that cardboard thing works.

Yea, dry cardboard works very well as a stropping material. I like a good fresh piece cut from a corrogated cardboard box. Just a few light strokes straight AWAY from the edge on each side will oftem take the broadhead (or knife) from shaving sharp to plowing sharp, and like I tell everyone- you sure can't beat the price.

Ron

Hey Ron, you got other friends in the meat industry? I learned that trick many moons ago as a fledgling butcher.

Ron,

Does the cardboard put a better final edge on the blade than your fine stone?

Rick

Sorry to sound so dense here, but what direction is AWAY from the head?

opposite direction than using for shaving

Thanks Bob!