How to Use Swivel Knife Sharpening for Your Leather Work

Video Transcript

"Okay, so again, here's my polishing strop and I've got some jewelers rouge on it, little bit of water, and I'm going to polish my, sharpen my swivel knife now. Again, remember it's a double edge blade so you want to kind of have it right up against the strop and always kind of pull towards yourself in kind of the same kind of motion. You see as I'm doing this, you see there's kind of a gray kind of color that's being added to the strop. Well of course that's little, tiny bits of the metal that are, I guess being polished away. So, that's cool, so that means that we know that we're sharpening our blade. Now these swivel knives, they come, you can get different tips for them and this is sort of a little protective kind of rubber tip you can kind of keep on it. But you can see, I've got a couple of other tips here. Here's sort of a broad one, you can kind of, maybe see the difference between those two obviously. Then this one is just kind of a, well I guess that one's, well, this is the same width as this one in my left hand, but if you actually look at the blade, you can see that the blades are at different angles. This is actually a much finer blade, for much finer cuts, then this one is a lot broader. So even though they are the same kind of, I guess dimension this way, one's a different width than the other. And these are interchangeable so when you buy one of these knives, this is kind of the swiveling part but you see it has like a little kind of flat head screw in it here, so if you want to switch out a blade you just take a little, little tiny flat headed kind of screwdriver, loosen that, and that blade comes right out, I'll put, let's see, we'll put the square one in, just place it right in there and we will tighten that little flat head screw again. Now, once that's tight, you are good to go to either, now, oops, I kind of didn't get that in, but anyway, you're good to go and now I can either strop this blade or use it on my project now. (Word)"