Hutsuls White & Green Strop Compound - Total 5 Oz Get Razor Sharp Edge with Green Honing Compound for Strop, Easy to Use Green & White Stropping Compound for Knives Guide, White Polishing Compound Bar

If you are just beginning with sharpening or a pro, you are going to need some sort of Strop Compound. Knife sharpeners will tell you that there are certain grits of compound that are better than others. And for every knife sharpener out there they all have their preferences. No matter what you may think, you will need something to prepare your strop. That is a given. The question is what is the "right" grit. The biggest issue? If you have multiple strop grits it is highly recommended that you have more than one strop. Cleaning each strop before or after use is extremely difficult or easy, and it is important to have a clean strop. It is critical for knife sharpening to use a strop grit. This particular brand is sufficient and does what it is meant to do. There are better grits out there, but you do not need to go extravagant to get grits to start with or until you are familiar with their purpose. Good starter blocks, good grit choices for someone starting with grits or even for professionals that are familiar with grits. Highly recommended.

I use various grit of polishing rouge and diamond paste.I use it on various leather strops for finishing the edge of a knife blade after sharpening. As well as using the strop to polish the blades bevel to a mirror finish.I have purchased different “brands” off Amazon. “Brands” that have no name, no discerning the grit number. Made overseas and they are junk compared to this!!This is what ALL of them should be. Good size, easy to apply, lists the grit & polishes extremely well. I’ll keep buying this brand until the day I pass. A+

Works great

The product works great. The first time I used compound on a strop.

Great for sharpening. I apply it to the leather strap I attached to a paint stick.

I have been sharpening my wife's kitchen knives for her for years & also my wood chisels and wood block plane & jack plane blades. And I found out that finishing compound can help take the blade sharpening to the next level.Well I guess it has ?? But.... I'm not seeing it or feeling it "that much more".It's not like I'm going to throw this stuff in the trash ! I'm going to keep at it....It took me awhile to get a feel for sharpening these blades. So maybe there is something to working with polishing / finishing compound ??

I work in a professional kitchen and have used these over the past two months on my strop. It isn’t anything less than advertised at a balanced price. Perfect for when cost matters and you need a razor-sharp edge for slicing tomatoes.It was a lot more brittle then other compounds I have used, I received one of them broken in half.I found that it layered on a lot better then compounds I have used in the past. I tended to over-apply with softer compounds, but with this compound, it’s easy to get a thin layer perfect for when you need your blade toBe the sharpest it can be. Whatever excess you do have will quickly become a layer that stays for more than a few uses. With other compounds, I found that they were easy to smudge away, this one stayed true throughout an eleven-hour day with several uses.

This compound is the perfect consistency and goes on the strop very easily. I have use bars that were so dry you couldn’t get it on the leather and I’ve had some that were so gummy that it got all over the place. This was a perfect consistency and it maintained good consistency through several stroppings. It did not gum up. You can see by the picture of the bar how neatly and evenly it applied to the strop.You get a very decent amount of each of the compound for the money. I’ve paid a lot more for a single block that is smaller than one of the two that you get here. I don’t use the white very much because I normally don’t let my blades get that dull but it’s good to have around nonetheless.But the amount of compound just for the green that you get for the money is still better than most. And the consistency of the compound is better than many that I have tried. It comes with a nice little plastic case to keep the bars clean. And mine even came with a hand written note which was weird but nice.I’ve been through dozens and dozens of different compound bars and this is probably the best one that I have used so far. It’s certainly the least expensive. And the green even allowed me to put a better edge on my ceramic blades which is no easy task. I will look going forward to see if they sell the green by itself because I will not run out of the white, but I am very pleased with this particular stropping bar. It’s good enough to make me take notice of their other products.