YouTube video of Tony Slinger showing and explaining stropping of his knife and skiving of a heel stiffener with a shoe knife
Notes
- strop
- “waxed cavalry boot leather”
- loose piece stapled to end of bench
- holds the loose end with hand
- four alternating pairs of strokes
- “if you don’t use this [the strop], you’ll constantly, constantly have to sharpen this [the knife]”
- strops before and after skiving a heel stiffener
- flat steel knife with very acute point, hanger hole, plastic-looking handle-cover