Rouge for a strop

[2treks]

I have run out of my rouge for my leather strop. What do you all use?
The stuff I am looking at now is buffing compounds in:
Green-fine/ex.fine
White Diamond
Black,and
Tripoli
Is this anything I wanna mess with?
   It seems that my old stuff was called "jewlers rouge"
Thanks,
Chuck

[2treks]

Originally posted by Two Tracks:
I have run out of my rouge for my leather strop. What do you all use?
The stuff I am looking at now is buffing compounds in:
Green-fine/ex.fine
White Diamond
Black,and
Tripoli
Is this anything I wanna mess with?
  It seems that my old stuff was called "jewlers rouge"

Thanks,
Chuck

[robtattoo]

Arm & Hammer toothpaste!
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Seriously. It's all I've used since someone toldme about it years ago & it works just as well as Rouge.

[2treks]

Mint or wintergreen?  :p   Just teasin'
Thanks Rob, I have used tooth paste before for other stuff but not a strop. May have to give it a try.

[T Lail]

look on a jewelery supply sight...should have all differant rouge grades....

[Roughcountry]

I used to use the red jewlers rouge. A few years back Al on this site told me about some stuff called yellowstone. I like it so much better I may never use the red stuff I have left.

I think I got the yellowstone from a woodcraft source.

[2treks]

Yellowstone Compound at the woodworkers craft store. I will look into that as well. I always had real good luck with the red jewlers rouge.
Is the yellow that good? OH! Thank you.
Chuck

[bigbadjon]

For in the field touchups I only use black compound which will hone to shaving sharpness. For very fine honing at home I use the green after the black. The green compound will achieve a mirror polish on the edge so I believe using anything finer is a waste of energy.

[2treks]

Thank you John,
I always applied a bit of lite oil to my strop leather and then worked in the rouge.Going for a nice even coating of slurry,very lite slurry. then I would let it soak and dry for a bit and lightly wipe of the excess. How do you all do it?
Chuck

[kbaknife]

Tandy Leather.
Most of the accomplished leather workers either make their own tools, or at least need to keep their tools VERY sharp to do their chosen leather tasks.
You'll often find a leather and rouge block right next to their work station.
Keep in mind that most compounds used by guys like us are put on spinning wheels. This creates friction and causes the compound to slightly melt into the wheel. It actually has additives blended in to do exactly that.
You can vigorously rub your rouge onto a piece of leather like your trying to erase something and then melt it in with a hot hair dryer.

  http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/en-usd/search/site+search+results.aspx?sectionpath=3&processor=content&p_keyword=rouge

[Roughcountry]

I use my strop several times a day in the leather shop. It's homemade and mounted on a board.
I scrape the yellow stone off the brik into a powder and just wipe it on the strop. I turns black with use.
It works faster than the red rouge but seems to polish just as fine.
I don't think it's in woodcrafts catalog, if I remember right I had to do a search of their website to find it.

[amicus]

Check this stuff out. Its called White Gold. Scroll to the bottom of page and click on stropping compound box. I really like it. There was a thread on Pow Wow that mentioned it.


 http://www.pinewoodforge.com/catalog.html

Gilbert

[bigbadjon]

I just glue a piece of leather skin up on each side of a board. I then rub on the compound just enough to color the pores. I also made a round faced one for recurved blades and concave broadheads.

[Scott Teaschner]

I use both a board and a wheel. I use a rouge that actually has diamond dust in it. Because of the diamonds it actully removes material instead of just polishing. I also have green to hit on after the diamond. The diamond is by far the best rouge I have ever used. You can get it from the Jackson Lea compony you have to buy it in bulk. I am down to 1/2 a stick so if any of you guys wanted to split a case I would call for a price. If you knife makers have not used this before you might want to get some its great. This is not your White Diamond Brand which has no diamond particles in it. Let me know if intrested.

[kbaknife]

I like the sound of that, Scott.
Might be worth pursuing.

[2treks]

I like the sound of that as well.

[Scott Teaschner]

See how many want to get some rouge and I will find out when I get back on the 8th. Tell me how many bars you want. This rouge is a special deal and they will only sell by a case from what I understand. For a guy like me a couple sticks lasts for you knife makers you may want more.

[Bladepeek]

I know this is an old post, but if you haven't ordered that case, could I get in on it too?
Ron