Jende Industries

Hello,

    An old friend and fellow sharpener, Tom Blodgett has provided me the opportunity to test out some of the products available on his site. Tom lives in Taiwan but don't let that bother you in terms of shipping costs.

     Tom sent me a full array of Nanocloth strops and diamond sprays for testing and review and if I liked them, I told him I would talk about them and provide a link to his site.

      What you are looking at is a colour coded nanocloth stropping setup and associated CBN sprays that you use to load onto the strops. They come in 3 different levels of refinement from 4 micron to .0.25 micron which is about 5,000 grit down to 60,000 grit. The strops themselves, i.e. the Nanocloth has absolutely no effect unless it is loaded with a compound, it is perfect for that though. The colour blocks you see are the acrylic bases the black nanocloth is adhered too. So basically, all you need to do is load up the strop with a corresponding coloured CBN spray, it is quite easy.  CBN is Cubic Boron Nitride, a very very hard substance, not diamond but next to it. I won't pretend to tell you I understand all the science behind these products, they have been around for quite awhile.

Poly Diamond is another one and I have samples of those as well.

Poly Diamond from Jende

So how did it go?

     You need to understand how to use these, i.e. in what order of course to get the most from them and they definitely need to be loaded up. So for testing I went from a 2k Stone to a 4 micron, 1 micron and finally a .25 micron strop. IT DEFINITELY made a difference, I did this on good quality knives that were sharp from the water stones already, all I was looking for was the slightest improvement and I got it. Repeatedly. 

     Now he also sent me a couple Kangaroo leather strops that I used bare and to be honest,  I think I like those as much as the loaded nanocloth strops, they are pretty nice. 

     Again, I do not sell products, so if you want to buy some of these and try them out, go for it, I don't get kickback or anything. If you live near me and want to see them up close and try them out, that is no problem for me at all. If you want to buy something from Tom, just check out his website.

I have a link to his website on my Page.

JENDE

     To summarize, you don't need these or similar products to make your knives sharp, if you are not getting your knives sharp on water stones, these will not help you but if you are there now and just want to explore another sharpening path, these will be fun for you. I do believe in strops, I didn't always but I do now and I do firmly believe that any good strop will make a difference, even a bare strop will work. 

NOTE:

     Tom Blodgett is not the first business owner to contact me for the purpose of advertising their product, or selling it. Some companies have come to realize that I have a good reputable business and I see a lot of great people who love sharpening. All they usually ask is for me to tell people about them  if they ask. If I like the product, I have no problem doing it, apart from a free sample in some cases, I don't get anything or want anything in return. 

     So if you sell something like water stones for example and you want me to tell folks about them like other folks have, Paul from Pauls Finest for example, just contact me. I WILL NOT recommend a product that I have not tested myself, so if you want me to tell folks about you and your products, you need to let me play with them :)

Peter Nowlan