LS1P1 – Dual-Sided Leather Paddle Strop & Polishing Compound

Meet the LS1P1 – Dual-Sided Leather Paddle Strop & Polishing Compound, your go-to tool for keeping blades sharp and ready for action. Designed to cater to various cutting tools, from delicate wood carving knives and kitchen blades to robust bushcraft gear, this leather strop is a must-have for enthusiasts and professionals alike. Whether you're a crafter seeking precision in your projects, a camper needing reliable tools in the wilderness, or a cooking enthusiast passionate about culinary perfection, the LS1P1 is the ideal companion for all your sharpening needs.

With its dual-sided design, offering a comprehensive sharpening experience, and boasting an ample size, the LS1P1 stands as our largest strop yet. One side, featuring suede leather, excels at refining edges and removing burrs, while the smoother side elevates your blades to a polished mirror-like finish.

Constructed with high-quality materials, including an Ashwood base and cowhide leather surfaces, the LS1P1 is built to last. The ergonomic design ensures ease of handling, making sharpening sessions a breeze. Coated with linseed oil for a smooth and firm grip, the wooden base provides stability during use, ensuring optimal sharpening results every time.

Complete with a green polishing compound, this strop elevates the sharpness of your blades to new heights. With the LS1P1, achieving a razor-sharp edge has never been easier or more efficient. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a novice enthusiast, this strop is a must-have tool for honing blades to perfection.

Specifications:

• Total length – 380 mm (14.96 inches)
• Length of the leatherworking part – 230 mm (9.05 inches)
• Working width of the leather – 80 mm (3.14 inches)
• Thickness of the strop - 20 mm (0.7 inches)
• Base material – Ashwood

You are most likely aware: keeping your whittling utensils on their best cutting edge is one of the most essential things in whittling, in a row with proper instruments and quality wood to use. If you don’t want to change your instruments more often than required and want to omit unnecessary injuries and traumas, you’ll take care of the tools that you carve with. You’ll ensure that they are carving sharp at all times before you start whittling for the day, in the process of it and after finishing. Caring for them will be greatly important to guarantee you an enjoyable time in the workshop. That’s why having a leather paddle as an assistant would be quite smart of you. The shaft is comfortable and specifically created so you could enjoy working using a leather strop sharpening utensil anywhere at any moment. It has two parts for you to try out to achieve several goals that will lead to a couple of various results with instruments.

Leather Paddle Manufacturing

Sharp tools make all the difference when you’re carving—and keeping them that way doesn’t have to be complicated. This double-sided paddle strop is a simple, effective tool designed to help you maintain a clean, polished edge with ease.

It’s built on a solid ash wood base that feels comfortable and balanced in your hand. One side features suede (the rougher leather), which holds polishing compound especially well—great for the first stage of stropping and edge refinement. Flip it over, and you’ll find the smooth grain leather, ideal for final polishing. This side helps even out those tiny imperfections and gives your blade a clean, crisp finish—usually without any compound at all.

It’s the kind of tool that quietly does its job and fits seamlessly into your sharpening routine.

Paddle Strop as a Necessary Tool

There are countless ways and instruments that will help you maintain the sharpness and smoothness of your tools. The choice is yours, surely: you can grab a paddle, a leather stripe like in a barbershop, a stone, a felt or leather wheel - so on and so forth. No one can decide for you what is more convenient to use, so the best advice here would be to try all of those things one by one to figure out which is the most effective and enjoyable for you. Stropping your tools is a very routine procedure, to be frank. It’s not something you do once a month when you need a break from carving or work. You’ll do it regularly, that’s why having a proper base to do it that will be effective and not boring or exhausting to you is quite influential.

BeaverCraft leather strop for sale

Here in BeaverCraft we think of your experience when you carve. We’ve got quite a lot of various things to help you start and continue carving with inspiration, joy and pleasure. These accessories for improving your tools’ state are one of them. Get a dual-sided sharpening paddle together with a piece of polishing compound to make the tools more shiny and sharp so that the wood feels like butter when you cut through it. Enjoy the process later when you get your instruments ready using our accessories!