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Leather strop with Koyo paste
In Japan, you’ll often see chefs using a leather strop instead of a honing rod. Japanese steels are harder than honing rods, so the rod simply doesn’t have much effect on them.
A leather strop is used to keep knives sharp and as the final polishing step after sharpening. Specially pressed leather with the perfect texture for this task, combined with Koyo green chromium oxide compound, allows you to achieve consistently excellent sharpening results every time.
The leather strop is mounted on glass to ensure a perfectly flat working surface, and it features two leather feet to prevent slipping during use. The Koyo compound comes in a 50 g block and will last a long time, as it wears down very slowly.
Material: pressed leather / glass
Dimensions: 210 mm × 75 mm
How to use:
Place the leather strop on a flat surface or mount it on a sharpening stand. Apply the chromium oxide compound like chalk, then draw the knife across the surface away from the edge (edge trailing). The more strokes you make, the more polished the blade will become.
Once your knife is sharp, you can maintain its edge on the leather strop before each work shift to extend sharpness. The purpose of stropping after stone sharpening is to remove the burr and finely polish the edge. Recommended for all types of blades, especially Japanese knives.
One of the main advantages is that you can’t scratch or damage your knives on the strop, and it’s very easy to use.
Do not wet or wash the leather strop. The glass base is fragile. Store in a dry, safe place.
Country of origin: Serbia
Everything you need to know about sharpening
How to choose the first Japanese knife?
If you are buying your first Japanese knife, the advice is to choose a multifunctional blade shape that will cover the widest range of your needs in the kitchen. This includes Gyuto, Santoku and Bunka. The rule is that bigger people need bigger knives and vice versa.
Japanese knife as a perfect gift
Although in the culture of the Far East it is not recommended to give a blade as a gift because of the connection with cutting off good relations, they also could not resist the perfection of such a gift, so they devised a "trick" that allows them to gift knives without problems. Just ask for one coin from the person receiving the gift and in the eyes of strict superstition spirits it will be a fair exchange. Now no joke, a knife is a gift that unlike other transient things will be remembered forever because it will serve forever.
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