Honey Badger Knives
Cardboard Strop
If you don’t want to buy a leather strop you can make a very simple cardboard strop with components that you probably already have lying around at home.
Strops are probably one of the most simple tools to keep the edge on your Honey Badger Knives razor sharp. Stropping is a very non aggressive process and while it may take a few tries to master the process, it’s virtually impossible to damage a blade by stropping.
Keep in mind that stropping is to help you maintain the edge of a knife that has already been sharpened. If the knife is totally blunt it will need sharpening first before a strop will be of much use.
Use the strop every few days depending on how much use your knife gets and you will be surprised how long you can go between sharpenings using stones.
Using this cardboard strop will help you understand the concept of maintaining an angle as you draw the knife, with trailing edge, across the strop. You may even enjoy the process so much that the next progression will be to get yourself a bench stone and enter the world of freehand sharpening.
The purpose of this article is not to teach you to strop. There are many YouTube videos that explain the process far better than we can. Take a look at the excellent videos from Burrfection and this one in particular showing how good using a cardboard strop really can be.
We just used a piece of cardboard that we found in the office. You could use the backing of a legal pad, a piece of cut from a USPS priority mail envelope or whatever you can find lying around.
The D2 steel knife we used here had just cut up a bunch of cardboard boxes and while still sharp had lost it’s shaving sharp edge.
The cardboard strop will work just fine bare as you can see below
Some folks prefer to use some type of compound. We used a bar of green Dialux but there are many different ones out there that will do the job just as well. Just apply as if you are using a coloring crayon.
These compounds have very fine abrasives in them and aid in really getting that fine edge. Note the black deposit on the cardboard strop below after a few strops as the compound gets to work. After about 10 strokes on each side the knife was again shaving arm hairs.
Just got my 1st knife yesterday, and I must say, from the ones I looked at and investigated, Honey Badger stood out for me and I am extremely happy with my choice.
Only handled one and it was a great blade!
I had to leave a review. They are a knife company
Superb Craftsmanship and design, Excellent EDC Knife!
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The large drop point is my jam!! How perfectly this knife is engineered and appointed is almost an enigma to me! How did they get it to be so good and so budget friendly?
Honey Badger Knives are top notch for quality.
I do not own a a Honey Badger knife at the moment but I’ve heard nothing but good about these guys! I’m a beginning knife enthusiast and I live for the more budget friendly and on the occasion one that is more expensive for my collection. I’m adding all knives from different brands and if I won a knife from Honey Badger then they will have a spot in my collection and hopefully grow with the other brands I have now. Here’s to winning giveaways 🤘
I live in south Africa and love the Honey Badger knifes, excellent product competitive with ANY top tier name brands, parts and warrantee available easily. I will NEVER buy another top tier knife from abroad!!
Great quality at a great price point, replacement parts and ways to customize your knife. What more could you ask for?
honey badger has really good high quality knifes. i was gifted one, and since then i have it in my pocket all the time. once i lost it, so i told my family that who ever finds it gets 20 ILS
I love honey badger knives design.
Best pocket knife I’ve owned. Have carried all the major brands for years. And great options in other brands, but what impressed with this brand is truly the quality of the blade, fit and finish. This is a gentleman’s/grown up’s knife though. Thin super sharp blade. If you use a knife as a screw driver and to jam into hard things, look elsewhere.
Just bought the honeybadger knife HB1017 flipper medium and I am well satisfied with it except for the lock bar. When you close the blade the release nub has a sharp edge that hits the end of your thumb. I filed the edge off without a problem but I feel this should be addressed by the designer.
Nice looking knife!
Great knives at a reasonable price
Honey Badger knives are obviously built from quality, reliably sound materials to withstand vast and rugged conditions while simultaneously flaunting a full array of blade/handle shapes and designs ranging from more tried and true classic looks to more unexpected, innovative and eye-catching, yet still finding itself repeatedly snug in that go-to, forget-anything-but-this-one, even-running-way-too-late, oh-no-H0£¥ §H%actually-all-those-knife spot
Excellent quality and value!
Great looking knife
Awesome knives
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