Just found your channel like two days ago, and I really like it. I binge watched almost all (okay, a LOT of) your videos in those two days! I'm strange like that. When I find a great channel, I want gobble up as much as possible. Your channel came up as recommended after I watched a bunch of sharpening videos last week, so you can thank KZread! Looking forward to new stuff, now I'm up to date.

I live in Victor, New York and am semi-retired. Would be completely retired but love my hobbies which now includes knife sharpening, which also means knife buying. I'm the main cook in my house and appreciate all the tools which make preparing and cooking more enjoyable. Lately, I'm spending more time watching your videos than cooking. Thanks!

Suggestion to make it more ergonomic and aesthetically pleasing is to: 1. add oil coating on the wood except on the surface where you glue the leather or just sand it off. 2. add some anti-slip rubber at the bottom. 3. invest on a hot press stamp with your logo on it and sear it in it the wood. I hope your channel gain even more success than it already have this year

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

thanks for the suggestions. always improving.

@m.preclaro3776

6 жыл бұрын

I personally like the look of a wood-burned design on unfinished wood.

Wow - another excellent way for you to improve on what's available! Please keep in mind that you DO give back to us - through your videos! Many of us will never be able to afford to buy some of the knives, etc. that you show us. So, we get to live vicariously through you. :-)

I just got my non-rolled buffalo strop & I'm thrilled. (Thank you, thank you, thank you Ryky) I use a 1000 then a 5000 stone so I'm not needing any compound on this strop. I've learned a lot from Ryky's channel and look forward each week to seeing new content.

I was not sure that stropping on leather was really useful. But a month ago I bought Ryky's buffalo hide strop because they looked beautiful. Without stropping compound it makes and keeps cutting knife edge really smooth. Now I use them all the time. Thanks Ryky!

@Kman31ca

6 жыл бұрын

Ya, that's all I use now, unless a knife really needs a good sharpening.

very interesting, informative and well-produced video. Thank you. You convey dedication and love for what you do. This is very rare these days.

I bought one of your rolled Buffalo leather strop, this is an outstanding strop made of the highest quality one of the best strops I have found and I have several of them. This strop was shipped from Hong kong and was at my house in 5 days. Your shipping is outstanding because you fly it to America and it gets here very fast. I am a very satisfied customer and will by from you again

I Just Started To Support You On Patreon 2 Or 3 Days Ago! Because I Get So Much Out Of These Epically AWESOME Videos! You Have Enriched My Life In So Many Ways Over The Last Few Months! I Practice Sharpening 1 Hour Every Day!! May You & Your Family Always Be Blessed!!!!

Just ordered one. Loving your sharpening/stone videos. I'm learning a lot, Thanks.

You have made great easy flowing videos to watch.These strops have come up a treat.Well done..lol better than my upside down one. lol..All the best..

Super helpful information and I'm very impressed with your level of research knowledge and creativity... I'll be buying the Shell Cordovan Ultimate Leather Strop very soon!!!!!

Ryky (I’m not sure if I spelled your name correctly?!) I found your channel about a month ago and I absolutely love what you are doing. You have inspired me to start sharpening and stropping my knives myself, and I thank you for that

I just want to mention that I received my Dalsrong Shogun Series 9.5" Chefs Knife Premium Collection. When I started with the unboxing I began to chuckle because of how excited you get during your unboxings. I don't get that way. So I took it out of the shipping box to see a very nice white slip cover box. nice got that off to find another box (white) that had a magnetic closure. Very nice. Now I was getting a little excited. I opened the box and holy shit. It is in a Saya that has a pin in it to keep the knife from falling out. I removed the knife to show it's Damascus V-10 blade. perfect in every way. The handle is a black like ebony with two SS pins and a decorative pin. very well polished and outstanding looking knife. Also included a pin, booklet on how to take care of the knife and what looks like a lens cloth. (possibly to clean your glasses from the tears of joy from this outstanding knife). I now understand why you get so excited. Thank you again for the discount.

Another outstanding video. Thank you, Strop ordered! Very best in 2019!

Thanks for doing this, just ordered a strop!

Just ordered the buffalo strop. Very excited to try this out!

So I would say on the strops, those are very nice, and if you are going to use a strop without compound its' the way to go... if you use compound, the compound itself actually does the work, so you don't need really fancy leather, just something that will take compound. So cheap leather is fine for that. To me it makes no sense to put abrasives all over those really nice strops. Thats just crazy.

I glued some horse leather on glass Block. Made a great strop for cheap. I also have Felt and balsa. I even have had great strop from Carter style news paper.

I really enjoy your videos. I have two questions that hopefully you can help clarify. So does a strop replaces the polishing aspect of sharpening with a whetstone? Also are there still stops left to purchase since the video came out in Dec 2017? lmk thanks.

If you use a 10k grid stone will a shell cordovan still help without coating + can you use the shell cordovan with coating + what coating should i use to get a nice result.

When I do strop ,which is not every time as not every kind of blade benefits from it, I use a "power strop". This is a leather belt made for a belt sander. The speed and efficiency of this method is unparalleled.

Love the videos but is the super expensive leather really worth the cost vs the outcome over a good lesser expensive hide

Have really been enjoying the channel, bought a Dalstrong Gladiator Series 10" Chef a few weeks ago. Looking to buy more of their products and my question is why is the Burrfection discount only available at Amazon, tried to use it on the Dalstrong website store and it's not recognized, maybe you could look into that. Thanks for the interesting channel.

16 inch Double sided ordered. Was going to make a long one but I can find the good leather cheap enough. I would like to see you do a video or in a vid of you using a 16.

before sorry for my english . Juste a litle question with these strope is compown past neaded or it can be used just like it come

Ricky you are the best. Thank you for publishing these videos. I would like to purchase one of your strops. please leave me a link. Thanks

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

kit.com/Burrfection/burrfection-gear-strops

When will you have more 16" rolled buffalo CF strops available?

Love your videos bro

Really nice Ryky!

Was the Dalstrong discount code removed? I don't see it listed. I tried to use the one you mentioned at the end of the video, but I was not sure exactly what the code is. After several guesses, I finally gave up. Thanks and enjoy your videos. Also, was wondering how the knives using BD1N steel are holding-up. Any update?

Omg that's so AWESOME... I got so much to catch up on...

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

where you been!?

Just wondering if you tested English Bridle leather, reading that its one of the better leathers dunno if its true.

First off I just want to say I love your channel! Your tutorial vids really have been helping me practice free-hand sharpening I'm a prep cook so I use my knives for hours at a time and am interested in using a leather strop to touch up my blade at work between tasks, essentially like a less destructive honing rod. At the moment I primarily use high carbon stainless steel at work but was planning on getting into harder Japanese steel knives in the future. I'm leaning towards the Buffalo hide strops since they don't need a finish and therefore seem more convenient to take to and from work. Would you recommend the regular buffalo hide or the rolled?

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

they all will work. the latigo is great if you plan to load, but "raw" is perfectly good. the buffalo is great because it's really glossy , so it does polish better raw, but it always cleans really easily for loading new compound

I would like to see a comparison video of stropping with different materials. Leather of course, but what about balsa wood, and MDF strops? Several KZreadrs are claiming good results using these alternative stropping materials.

Still waiting on your review of the new Kuma knife! :D

Your website doesn’t have them available. I need one!!!!

Dang it, I must have just missed out on the 2.0 version. My buffalo hide strop just arrived in the mail today and it still has the rough squared off corners. Just my luck!!! :( Anyway the buffalo strop looks really nice, I can't wait to use it.

Hello i am leather worker also. I have made lots of strips mainly hanging for straight razors. You should try drummed stuffed kangaroo hide as a material.

Ryky great stuff! In your opinion if you’re applying compound would you say it doesn’t really matter which hide to use?

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

doesn't matter as much. go with latigo

I really wanted to buy one but having to pay 30€ shipping to Germany on a 23€ priced product is a little bit too much for me right now.

@smokecrackhailsatan

6 жыл бұрын

You should try making your own. Quality leather itself is actually cheaper in a lot of European countries.

I would like to get the pressed buffalo one, but again 30€ shipping to Germany. If I could get that and the Yanagi knife in one box that would be great. You dont resell knives, do you?

I want the shell cordovan, guess i'll need to save a year to buy it :/ sucks that the transport costs are big for belgium.

So whats the difference in using compound vs no compound? Does it matter which leather after you put compound on them aren't they all the same? How do you decide wether to use compound or not?

@dannybeeson5084

6 жыл бұрын

Compound is a very fine abrasive suspended in a wax. Adding it to a strop increases it's ability to cut/polish. Tradeoff is the strop now can ONLY polish to the limit of the abrasive. Typically you have two strops. The first is charged with compound. Most common is the green. Once you've stropped on the compounded strop, clean the blade then use the clean strop (no compound). This gives you the best polished edge and is normally how straight razors are treated.

@Kman31ca

6 жыл бұрын

For the best compound, Bark Rivers compound outshines them all. I sharpen up to a 6000 grit stone. Then I use Bark River diamond emulsion, its a fluid with extremely fine diamonds in it. I just rub it on the strop, and it gives an amazing shine, and edge. I Use the .5 micron. But Using a really high grade leather like these, you might not need compound. If I had one of these strops, I'd just finish on that. To each their own.

Change your woodworker, saw burns on the edges of the maple ?

Have you ever used a rawhide strop? Thanks!

Will these strops work for hap40 steel?

You really should consider engineered wood for these, it doesn't look as fancy but it also doesn't warp, which is really the critical thing with this kind of thing.

Whats with the saw burns on the maple? Are those finished? Have they not been sanded? Whoever is making them should cut them large and bring them to finished size on a disc sander.

@jamesoxford4260

6 жыл бұрын

...not to criticize... I enjoy your channel and have found many of your videos informative. I just enjoy working with wood and it was the first thing I noticed. hard maple I generally find to be pretty stable, but it could probably benefit from some kind of finish; even just mineral oil. IDK for sure though.

@sheikhjimmy

6 жыл бұрын

I love to buy one if you can send it to Brunei.. if yes I will provide my address .. I got few Shun knives

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

kit.com/Burrfection/knife-kit, i ship international

@christopherlaborde1670

6 жыл бұрын

Burrfection Just ordered!

Are there leather alternatives for strops?

I would love to see you do a video of stropping an actual full size katana. There isn't anything of quality on KZread for doing it.

looking forward to thoes gold knifes review ... wink wink XD (not a prb if they have diamonds in them XD) also it is actually nice to see you do such a magnificent progress :D

Where is the discount code for dalstrong?

Hey, Ive been watching you for some time now and I love your work. With your advice I bought my first "good" chef knife which is dalstrong shogun x 8". Im waiting for my friend from NY to come visit me here on Warsaw, Poland. Are you shipping further then US? Also, maybe try to "Burn" your logo on the bottom of those straps on wood? :) Best od luck :)

Its Kevin Puk here I bought 2 haha :D One 2 sided shell one buffalo 2 sided

Wanted to ask what is a wooden polishing wheel? I googled it and no luck lol

@frederikkjaer4170

6 жыл бұрын

douglas dietrich it is basically a wooden wheel attached to a motor that spins it fast. Normally compound is applied, and when you use it to polish your knives, it’s like stropping but super fast. Search for mdf wheel, one thing to note is that I heard that it is very dangerous, so don’t try it without lots of research

may i use on katana or wakizashi ?

omfg, I can only imagine your garage if you never gave anything away!!! XD

Thanks

The long strops work better no matter the length of the blade.

I’ve been trying to order some strops from you. How do I do it? A reply to your blog doesn’t work. Help me out.

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

kit.com/Burrfection/knife-kit

Was going to try one out but $45.42 CAD for shipping is painful :(

What page is for buying the strops i want one need for a. 3inch to a 4 inch kinfe wich u recommend?

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

kit.com/Burrfection/knife-kit

Do you make custom sizes?

Whts a big hazel i went to the kite page and it was slow i create the account and i try to look for Lether strops and say ask a friend in stead at the home page say buy all in amazon okey i try to buy your strops but nop i did not understand the page sorry it was so hard and I don't like amazon i try to support ur page but i fail 😥

Which one of these Strops do you recommend for folding Knives like a Spyderco with a S30V steel or 52100 steel?

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

if you plan on loading, just go latigo

@georgefrazier8404

6 жыл бұрын

What would you recommend loading with?

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

if you are willing to do some work, enkay green is CHEAP ,but gives great results, amzn.to/2GlHsVx, , if you want something that just works, Herolds green or red bit.ly/sharpeningsupplies, green is 4-5K grit, and red is 6-8k grit.

First off sorry for my English, it's not my native language. I was wondering about all the cheap Whetstones on Amazon, Ebay etc. Im thinking about buying a Miyabi Birchwood 8inch Chef's knife. How many stones would you recommend for a knife like that? I see tons of whetstones as low as 10$ and it got some great reviews, so my question is why buy something like a 150$ whetstone when i can get it so much cheaper? Say like a 500/1000 Grit stone, 2000/5000 Grit Stone would that do it? I could get that for maybe 50$. (So basicly a very good Chef's Knife, and some cheap maintenance tools) Is this a bad idea?

@pureheroin9902

6 жыл бұрын

Herman Holgersen have you used stones before? If not then it won't make much, if any difference how much you spend imho. If you are a really good stone sharpener then high quality stones can give a more consistent quality. my experience with cheap stones is they don't create a slurry very easily if at all. If you are a beginner just buy a cheap stone for £15. If you want something better but still good value get the two sided "King Japanese Whetstone combination grit 1000/6000" for around £24.

@afrog2666

6 жыл бұрын

Your english is fine ;) And you don`t need too many stones, most people will be fine with 500/1000 & 2000/5000 stones, but the money you spend makes a difference, some stones are just smoother or more aggressive than others, depending on the material and binding etc, but I`d say get affordable stones first, practice on a cheaper knife (or several) then consider sharpening your more expensive knives on stones ;) but the harder the steel, the more you need to consider the stones you`re using. There`s always a steel, ceramic, or diamond honing rod to use on your chef knife if you don`t want to spend a lot on sharpening, but want to keep your knife in good working order, not as satisfying as a stone but it does the trick :)

Got the notification. Like first. Watch later

Amazing products, unfortunately shipping to Canada is so expensive 😣

Hi Ryky, I searched Amazon.ca for your strops but got no results, are they sold on the Canadian site...thanks

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

kit.com/Burrfection/knife-kit

Hello I was wondering if you would send me one to do a test and evaluate on my you tube channel where I test knives for different company's .I've got all kinds of strops and they don't hold up and I've ruined some nice edges .I can take this and use it and people will order yours instead of the inferior ones I threw mine all away .look forward to hearing from you

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

thanks for the offer, but that won't be necessary. good luck with your channel.

Pleeease can you make a video on the chosera 5000 and 10000

Can I use the rolled buffalo hide without compound?

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

yeah. i often do. compound will speed things up a little

Omg yes!! I hope you don't run out 2 weeks from now, I get paid then... :/

Hi, ricky, I am in Australia, And I wanted to purchase the Buffalo Premium Leather Strop, However it's out of stock already, When are you going to make some more?

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

just a few days. hang tight!

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

what size are you looking for? plenty of 3 x 9 burgundy buffalo left in stock

@Jacky_xu

6 жыл бұрын

Hi, ricky, i am looking for a black 3*9 buffalo strop, is 10" the new (3X9)?

Hi what is the name of your store to order a leather sharpner i have a katana what do you recommend??????

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

kit.com/Burrfection/burrfection-gear-strops leather strops are to polish and clean your edges, not really sharpen. you should probably use whetstones for your katana

I can't believe hides cost that much!!!!! :O

wow...there's so many stroop you should send me one of it..

Stock still running?

Still prefer nanocloth strops at the same price. I have no luck getting smooth side leather to hold compound or emulsions.

@afrog2666

6 жыл бұрын

aren`t those for rougher strops? noob question probably, but I`m not a big strop guy, I use an old belt hehe.

@smokecrackhailsatan

6 жыл бұрын

Nanocloth itself doesn't really have any abrasive properties. it's very thin so it's very hard against the backer, and it takes CBN or Diamond compounds very very well. They cut fast, and depending on which compound you're using, i find the 4 micron ones pretty much eliminate touchups until I have to go to the stones.

BTW you can really make this into a business if you grow a bigger channel and have more products you can make with wood and leather. Like a sink bridge I have some ideas because I made one myself haha. I want ryky to be the best stay at home dad and at the same time doing what he loves so much.

I would like to buy them.

So I notice on ETSY, you said that Buffalo Premium Leather does not need a stropping compound. Does this apply to the Rolled Buffalo Premium Leather too? Do you recommend not using a stropping compound or it does not really matter? Lastly is there one leather you recommend for just a quick strop before using each time?

@kev23dk

6 жыл бұрын

literally any will do :D I have been stropping for over a year now and I used shit leather they work awesome haha. But now with ryky's strop it will be so much better

All those pretty ponies... the stuff dreams are made of.

Sent you an E-Mail Ryky, let me know what you think.

You post realy late

Can you review kamikoto knives

@Burrfection

5 жыл бұрын

would you sell knives for ..... under $300 a set when they are worth $2000- $3000?

How do i view ur strop

@andreahighsides7756

6 жыл бұрын

www.etsy.com/shop/BurrfectionStore?ref=s2-header-shopname

Amazing.. May i have 1 knife???

Hi, nice videos and beautiful knifes you have here. I would love to see some Masakage as well as Yu Kurosaki knifes on the channel, both are high quallity and you might want to check them out. Keep up the great work👌

@janvirtanen9110

4 жыл бұрын

I have been looking for nakiri. So far on my list are masakage yuki and watanabe pro. I have some gyutos already but I mostly cut vegs on my home kitchen and I like nakiri profile.

Kangaroo. Finest grain.

welcome to you 2 :D

@christianhansen3292

6 жыл бұрын

are u patenting those strops?

@christianhansen3292

6 жыл бұрын

not picky whatever u can supply me, u have often said ur not an expert but to me it seems ur close cause u got many resources.

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

kit.com/Burrfection/knife-kit

@christianhansen3292

6 жыл бұрын

yes i learned to go to 'show more' and the links were right there thanks ryky. cảm ơn(kam ung)

Whats wrong with people freaking out over a leather strop? Its just a piece of leather on a woodblock....just glue bothe together...done

Thats alot of strops

what type off dye do you use

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

dye?

Shell cordovan on a bloody knife strop! What a waste!

demonstration with knife 9:40

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

somebody,,,, is paying attention . thank you !

no vegan option?

@7burnitdown

6 жыл бұрын

1basicveganbitch can't tell if this is a joke or not. If it is lol. If not lol.

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

hmmmm i'm going to pick up some faux leather fabrics soon, to cater to my vegan viewers. hang tight!

@jdelv1524

6 жыл бұрын

i am very serious...lol

@Burrfection

6 жыл бұрын

haha. so am i.....

@jdelv1524

6 жыл бұрын

Great! Can't wait...