John Lucas

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john Lucas

I found a bar of yellow or possibly gold depending on how you decide what color it is. It came with a carvers strop that I bought a few years ago. Not sure it's the same stuff but I tried it yesterday and it seemed to polish the metal better than the Green bar. I'm going to try and run a test tomorrow on some metal polish that I have as well as the green bar and this yellow one. I just reground and polished a set of Marples Chisels so I'll buff one of each and see if I can see the difference. There was definitely a difference between 2000 grit sandpaper and buffing with the Green bar. The bar polished the metal to a higher shine and it seemed like the yellow did better but I didn't really have a standard to judge by.

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Jorge Castañeda

The way I judge it is how much it blackens when stropping, the green bar does it very little, the white is more aggressive and blackens readily, so it is taking more metal out and the knifes get shinier and cut nicely.

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John K Jordan

I got this yellow bar from Amazon. It's the same stuff as in the carving knife honing kit but a larger bar.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ZRZQIO

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Chuck Engstrom

Another "White Gold" stropping compund is from a fellow named Rich Notto, "currently unavailable" on Amazon but shown on Del Stubb's Pinewood Forge site on the "new items" page http://www.pinewoodforge.com/new_items.html.

I've used green bar and the one from Flexcut, no opinions yet so I'll hope John gives us some further analysis on this.

Best to all -- Chuck

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Jorge Castañeda

I use. got it from Del...