Stropping with Green Rouge verses Diamond Paste

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

I have just posted this article to my website.

http://www.inthewoodshop.com/WoodworkTechniques/Stroppingwithgreenrougeversesdiamondpaste.html

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[bugbear]

Is that an old article, Derek?

The images are GIFs !!

BugBear

 

[Jake]

I do love the English language - 'green rouge'.

 

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

Hi BB

I write the articles in Word and imbed my (JPEG) images directly. I then use OpenOffice to convert them into html (it does this differently to Word) for uploading. The JPEG images seem to get converted into GIF images by the process. Do you think it matters that much?

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[TrimTheKing]

Genuine Horse Butt??? Is that really what it's made of??? :shock:

Cheers

Mark

 

[Paul Chapman]

Hi Derek,

I use jewellers rouge and Vaseline on my strop.

The Vaseline serves the same purpose as the baby oil that you use - I only use it occasionally and rub it in well.

Like you, I only use a small amount of jewellers rouge at a time. You can see the stripes on my strop where I've just put some on. That's about how much I use and that will last for several stroppings. That stick of rouge will probably last me for ever

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[gidon]

Derek
Nice article. I've never tried diamond paste on leather but would have thought it'd be too soft for the finer grades.
A planed piece of maple or another close grained timber is the best I've tried for the finer diamond paste. The results from this are very impressive and from my experience far better than just using the green soap. But that's not to say the green stuff doesn't give you a very sharp edge - it does. And it works well just rubbed onto a piece of MDF too.
I think there is a distinction to be made in stropping to remove any trace of a wire edge (general meaning) and stropping to refine the scratch pattern at a very fine grit (which will also remove the wire edge) which
should also improve edge retention. Of course the latter is much harder to gauge!
Cheers
Gidon

 

[Paul Chapman]

One issue concerning the various polishing compounds is the base material from which they are made. In a cold workshop (you probably don't have that problem in Oz) some of them go hard and are difficult to apply. I find that jewellers rouge stays soft and is therefore always useable, whatever the temperature.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[bugbear]

Hi BB

I write the articles in Word and imbed my (JPEG) images directly. I then use OpenOffice to convert them into html (it does this differently to Word) for uploading. The JPEG images seem to get converted into GIF images by the process. Do you think it matters that much?

Regards from Perth

Derek

Well they're bigger files, so they take longer to download, and they look awful.

You decide

Hmm. Which version of openoffice are you using? I suspect this is an option, "somewhere"

Edit; just did a little test, straight from oo2.3, and a JPEG stayed as JPEG, so it CAN be made to work "right".

BugBear