What kind of glue for leather to wood for strop?
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5 December 2013 at 9:51 pm #23167
I used PVA on my main strops.
I made a strop for the inside of gouge chisel rounded a bit of wood and used that spay contact adhesive to stick leather worked very well.
I charge with a blue bar which I got in a honing kit from Trend leave a very fine polish. I think it is a real final polishing compound. I think the green bars cut a bit quicker.Ken, I use spray adhesive. If it’s something I want to be able to remove (maybe to put on another piece of leather) I just use the re-positionable general purpose spray… otherwise, I use the heavier duty stuff and it holds really well. There’s another glue that is a craft glue that is very strong and works great for leather called E-6000. They carry it at craft stores, like AC Moore here in the US.
For the compound I use a paste that they sell at this website… http://www.chefknivestogo.com/choxd4oz.html Great site, but I’m not sure how it would be to the UK. That paste is a little expensive but one tube will last you a long time.
This is all the same stuff I do for kitchen knives and straight razors, etc. There’s a bunch of different stuff you could use but these are my favorites.
Hi Ken, your probably sorted by now but I use standard contact adhesive for strop. I haven’t got myself any compound yet: I’m using Farecla polishing paste instead. It’s a more expensive form of T-cut. I usually use it to polish out the insides of any fibre glass molds I make. At a push, you can even use toothpaste which is basically just minty flavoured polishing compound with added floruide. I just smear the Farecla into the leather every three or four weeks then give the strop a quick puff from a water sprayer before I polish the blade. The blade is always sharp enough to did the “shave your arm” trick and I have never had any problems with rust.
6 December 2013 at 2:03 pm #23208I used superglue to fix the leather to timber. Never had a problem with that but PVA is probably easier as you’ve got a longer open time so can smear it over the whole piece.
I’m using some polishing compound I bought from Nic Westermann at the European Woodworking Show in 2012. It works ok but doesn’t seem to cut very quickly and takes a while to remove the scratch marks from the super fine diamond stone. I recently picked up three bars of different grit sizes with the aim of making a couple of double-sided strops, then working through the grits in the same way as we do diamond stones. Here’s the supplier, although Axminster have them as well: http://www.shesto.co.uk/Polishing-&-Finishing-Polishing-Bars/c49_337/index.html
I got the grey, pink and blue bars (how very colour coordinated!), which are for removing steel and need to be used in that order. I’ll let you know how I get on with them once I get the strops made.
George.
6 December 2013 at 2:21 pm #23210Ken, I used Gorilla Glue to attach the leather to a piece of plywood. I don’t particularly like the stuff, and it is messy, but it is what I had on hand at the time. It has held up well this past year.
I also use the green polishing compound from Harbor Freight. No complaints there, it works well.
Hi Ken,
I had three attempts. The first was with spray glue and it didn’t work at all. I think the can was the most expensive and useless glue I have bought so far. Because of the prize I continued to use it from time to time – for example to “fix” sandpaper on a granite tile – with bad results and increasingly bad mood. I found that it sticked superbly to everything except for the stuff it was supposed to hold in place 😉
The second one was with Pattex all purpose glue an worked ok but eventually got loose around the edges.
Number 3 was with double sided tape and this is what I’ll use or any future strop!
The compound is green medium grit and costs 12 Euro per kilogramm.
I bought it here:
http://www.wonisch-online-shop.de/Wachs-fuer-Edelstahl-gruenI cuts quickly, leaves a fine edge and sticks to the leather well. I use it for all my sharpening including axe and carving knives.
Happy stropping! 😉
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