I know lots of guys take their knives and 2-blade heads to the cardboard or leather for a little stropping.

Can you do the same with a 3-blade head? Can you have the same results for ultra-sharpness?

I am thinking you could draw the blade backwards towards you and have the same effect.

What are your thoughts?

I have used both leather and cardboard from a note book. I rub a little buffing compund on there and get mirror finish edges. There is debate about which is better, "file sharp" and "polished edges".

I pull the BH toward the rear.

I have a piece of leather glued to a 6" piece of 1 x 4.

Works great      

it works great.....I have been sharpening my snuffers like that for years, once done with the fine diamond stick I drag em backwards on a piece of rough leather... it polishes up the edges real nice.

Yeah, I think it works with a 3 blade, but not as well as with a 2 blade.  I theorize it is because the edge is not perpendicular to the direction of the strop and/or there is no increase in the angle as with a 2 blade.  

I have "stropped" my 3 blades with a small buffing wheel in a battery drill.   :eek:    Probably not the brightest thing I've ever done  , and I don't recommend it    

I glued a piece of thick leather to a piece of wood and rubbed jewlers rouge on the leather. This allowed me to draw the three blade Wensel head to me on the stiff flat surface. Worked just fine. You have to take your time until you get the feel of it. Get in a hurry and you'll slice the leather. Try this on a barbers strop, with a WW head, and you'll mess up a good strop. The strop is just too flexable. Good luck.

Bill Turner  

I've found that the "shiny" side of cardboard cereal boxes work well for stropping three-blade heads. I cut up the kids' cereal boxes and keep a little stockpile of them lying around.

Can't beat a flap off a plain brown corrugated cardboard box. After you have the head as sharp as you can possibly get it, drag it backwards over the cardboard about 10 passes per side. Two blade or three blade head it doesn't matter. Cardboard works soooo well as a stropping material, I wish I could sell it!!!  

Ron

I watched the KME boys at Denton this year take a VPA from the stones to the cardboard , my gosh that cardboard did wonders went from shaving sharp to SCARY SHARP in a few strokes.

I do it to finish it off when sharpening my snuffers.  Works great.  My dad found some scrap leather rangeing from 6x6 to 12x12 inch peices.  When I 1st saw them, I knew right away that I could put them to good use.

Thank you gentlemen, I believe you confirmed my suspicions.

I have my eye on some cardboard as we speak, and will see how my razorcaps come out.

Regards
Jake

snuffer tamer

Over and Under....I like Razorcaps, too. My final sharpening step is to "strop" them on a fine ceramic rod using VERY light pressure. I do alternately two blades at a time for 30 strokes (10 per blade) and have found that using leather or cardboard afterwards, for me, does not get them much if any sharper. Every animal I have killed with them has gone down in sight. However, listen to Sharpster if you don't have a ceramic rod. He knows how to get things sharp.

Bill

I have had some impressive results with them as well, they are a great head. The ceramic stick is what I use too.  I was hoping that stropping could polish up the edges a little more, interesting findings....

Thanks

I never have a had a problem getting my WW very sharp with just a file. I tried diamond stones, but they always seemed to dull the head. Last night I tried the cardboard trick and WOW!
Now the heads are so sharp I am keeping them in the garage.......for fear they will cut by just being in the house!
Can't wait to put one through a blacktail on POW in less then two weeks!!
Thanks for the idea!

chris <><