Secure the leather polishing wheel to the arbor. Clamp the arbor to a hand drill or a motorized jaw chuck. Dress the leather wheel with polishing compound and buff hone or burnished cutting tool to mirror finish. The vegetable tanned leather compact fibres is rigid, densely packed and long lasting. Dressed with polishing compound its mechanized rotation quickly sharpens, polishes to razor sharpness.
- Diameter – 75 mm (3.00 inches)
- Width – 19 mm (0.75 inches)
- Tang arbor diameter – 7 mm (0.28 inches)
- Tang length – 55 mm (2.5 inches)
- Material – natural vegetable oil tanned leather.
- Polishing compound Green or Grey
The leather wheel is made of high-quality vegetable oil tanned leather. The front edge of the stropping wheel has a low pile as well as the side surface of the knife sharpening wheel. Just how it should be for aligning the razor sharpness with your tools.
You can use the leather polishing wheel for all your knives (wood carving knives, kitchen knives, pocket knives), all your chisels and gouges, mini bench grinders, sloyd knives, hook knives, chip carving knives, draw knives, long hook knives and so much more. Dressed with polishing compound the wheel will hone and mirror polish cutting tools edge to shaving sharpness. Polishing removes minute metal serration and burs. A smooth cutting edge offer less cut resistant and much deters rust formation especially on carbon steel.
Every woodworker will be happy to get such gift as BeaverCraft knife polishing wheel because for spoon carving, bowl carving, general roughing wood out, delicate chip carving or other types of wood carving you should have super sharp wood carving knives and this leather sharpening wheel is exactly the one that makes sharpening process easier and quicker.
The leather honing wheel usually gets used together with any power rotary tool or a hand drill, for example. The hole in the middle allows you to fix the screw spindle, then you lock it down – voila, the leather sharpening wheel will be ready to be used stationary or as portable polisher.
Using the polishing paste with leather stropping wheel
When that strop wheel is attached and locked down so you are sure it’s ready for use, turn the power on. Lock the rotary tool you’re using on the workbench using clamps. Gently slide the compound across the wheel while it’s rotating until the whole surface is covered.
Now that your tool is locked and the wheel is prepared for stropping, gently slide the tool left and right on the wheel so that the compound gets onto the bevel and with the wheel rotating gets polished. If you can’t really imagine how it should look, welcome to our YouTube channel where we uploaded the video on working with such a tool.
Usefulness of sharpening wheel
Having a stropping utensil like this is greatly practical. Sometimes you do enjoy stropping with a leather strop, having it in one hand and the tool in the other while you’re imagining to sharpen your barber knife as in movies. However, there are days when you don’t want to struggle and simply need it done quickly. That’s when the strop wheel like this one comes into play. It will deal with the task quickly, accurate and give you the needed polish in a blink of an eye.
NOTE: Ensure the wheel rotation is away from the cutting edge and not against to avoid tool digging in and dangerously thrown.
