I've carried one of these around in my 'whittling' kit for a few years and thought some of you may find a use for one.
Basically, it's a honing whetstone and a strop made from an old Rolls Razor set. You can pick up Rolls Razors on car boot fairs, in second hand shops and on ebay for a few quid. There are two plates, one each side, and one contains a very fine stone the other a leather strop. If you bend back the metal clips you can extract them to use on a blade. You need to be careful with the stone until you mount it; it's quite thin and fragile. I epoxied them each side of a piece of 6mm ply. Just a smear of your preferred paste on the leather and you've got a full edge dressing kit in a single tool.
For just holding that edge in camp (as opposed to regrinding a damaged edge) it's a great piece of kit
Basically, it's a honing whetstone and a strop made from an old Rolls Razor set. You can pick up Rolls Razors on car boot fairs, in second hand shops and on ebay for a few quid. There are two plates, one each side, and one contains a very fine stone the other a leather strop. If you bend back the metal clips you can extract them to use on a blade. You need to be careful with the stone until you mount it; it's quite thin and fragile. I epoxied them each side of a piece of 6mm ply. Just a smear of your preferred paste on the leather and you've got a full edge dressing kit in a single tool.
For just holding that edge in camp (as opposed to regrinding a damaged edge) it's a great piece of kit
