Customer Reviews

Woodstock D2902 1-Pound Extra Fine Buffing Compound, Green

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I'm not sure why this product hasn't received good reviews. It's excactly what I hoped it would be. I use it on a leather strop to polish the secondary and primary edges on my hunting and utility knives. It does a great job. Strop turns black, even with premium hard steel, very quickly. One review said that it flakes off too easily (The product is not terribly waxy). However, I haven't seen that problem, perhaps because I put a little mineral oil on the strop. Given Amazon's price, free shipping and great customer service, I don't know how you can do any better than buying this product from Amazon. Presumably, it also functions perfectly on a buffing wheel, the purpose for which it was intended.

First, this is a lot of CrOx. The bar is about 6-1/2" long, 1-3/4" wide, and 1-1/2" high (the length and width are about the average of the taper). It's like a giant crayon. What I did, with excellent results, was I sanded down the rough side of my strop with 220 grit to flatten it and remove the "leather burrs" and then "colored" it with this (again, like a crayon), but only about the bottom 1/3 or so of it. If you are a home user this will last you many years. You can also use it on canvas, linen, balsa, felt, etc. Up to you.

It is also useful for touching up an edge that hasn't been honed in a while, whether or not you hone edges yourself. It won't be a permanent injunction against a razor needing to be honed but you should be able to smooth it a few times and get it honed less frequently (i.e. it will reduce tugging but don't count on much sharpening per se). Unlike stropping this will abrade the steel so don't do it every day, just when it needs it. This will reduce wear and tear on your razor as well as your waterstones (or save you money / time away from your straight if you send it to an honemeister)

For the ultimate razor maintenance I recommend a daily fabric pre-stropping (canvas or linen, either will minimize corrosion with negligible if any abrasion), then leather, then occasional CrOx when it's needed, and finally an honing when the CrOx buffing no longer brings it up to an acceptable level. This regiment will keep your straight as sharp as possible while avoiding unnecessary removal of steel. And of course keep a coating of oil on the steel before storage!

this review seems a little silly but here go,s this is a stick of buffing compound I rub it onto a razor strop and after I sharpen my kitchen and hunting knives I strop the blades for a razor sharp edges good product do's the job and go's a long way igot a good price on it and am pleased with the product

We used it for polishing the aluminum on our snowmobiles. Gives a wonderfull mirror like finish. We cut a small chunk off and soaked it in acetone to make a thick liquid and used a cone buffing wheel.

I bought this buffing compound to buff out all the scratches and just dull finish on the dance floor edgeing at work and it works 10 times better than I thought it would. It is amazing to see the difference in the before and after. The edgeing had never been polished with any other products before except to wipe it off by hand whenever it was dirty but now it looks almost like it is brand new.

This item was quite useful in polishing up my Sanke keg from the "fine" polishing wheel level to the mirror-finish level. If I were polishing up another keg, I would have used an intermediate polishing compound before using this one, in order to smooth out some of the rough spots and scratches left by the find disk. Either way, this bar, combined with a suitable angle grinder, were very effective in bringing out the reflection in the stainless-steel.

Put some of this on my strop three months ago when I ordered it, and Jesus, the stuff performs well. Takes a sharp knife and just puts that final edge on it. So far, I haven't had to put any other coats onto my strop, and I only used a very tiny amount from the corner of the block, and this thing is MASSIVE. It is a relatively low-density product, so the one pound block is pretty long. It was my first time buying honing compound, and thanks to the size of this block, and how long this stuff seems to last, I think it may be my last - not that I'm complaining. It's nice to buy a product once and never have to bother with ordering more.

if you have a strop you need this stuff. I thought the price was right on amazon. You could probably use an old leather belt instead of a strop and this would still be fine

its works great from what i can tell, though i am not a pro and have not tried any other companies products so my view point is limited. it does take the blade to a point well past my stone set.

Not the correct compound for stropping a knife on a leather strop. Once rubbed on the strop, the compound begins to slowly flake off as you strop the knife.