<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Aluminum Oxide is an extremely good stropping compound as it is "harder" than steel and is very fine so that it polishes as you strop. Baby powder is made with either talc or corn starch both of which are soft materials so when you strop with these, nothing happens. <br><br>Dick Faulkner - Woapalanne Woodcarving <br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Linehan718@aol.com" <Linehan718@aol.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> woodcarver@carverscompanion.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 12, 2009
4:36:29 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Woodcarver] Even at this unnatural hour ...<br></font><br>
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<div>In a message dated 3/12/2009 5:31:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
celtcarver@me.com writes:</div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><font style="background-color: transparent;" size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">In any
event, even if I can't type, I can hear the faint sounds of <br>tools
being sharpened. What are you working on? What is the burning
<br>woodcarving question of the day on the cold, blustery
morn?<br><br><br>Matt Kelley<br></font></blockquote></div>
<div>I am as always carving more mini wolves (3/4" tall) , have done about 200
at this point, people keep buying and I will keep carving.</div>
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<div>My question of the day will be "what is the best compound to use on a
leather strop" Is it aluminum oxide??? I have heard baby powder is
excellent. Does anybody have any knowledge of that???
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