A leather strop on a hardboard backing, some tormek PA70 honing paste and that’s pretty much all I use to bring mine back. Yep you can get into using stones but unless you’ve some chips or heavy rolls you don’t need to use a stone. Stropping alone should bring back the edge.

I have plenty of India stones etc that I use to sharpen my kitchen knives and woodworking tools but I find them a bit too aggressive for my own Victorinox, Mora and Leatherman blades. I splashed out recently on this

It's a nice bit of kit, just about big enough for smaller blades. Add to this kit with Autosol metal polish on a scrap of MDF and you're sorted for a strop. I've made my own strops too from a piece of a leather belt, works great with the Autosol also. I rarely take my blades to a stone, regular reworking with a strop is usually fine unless you get a nick in the edge,as already advised. There's not much meat in a Victorinox or other folding blade so it's best to avoid stones when you can.

I have 3 different strop compounds, they are pretty inexpensive and would probably last several lifetimes! I do use a bit of 3 in 1 oil on the strop in co junction with the compound, but the Autosol is perfectly good too. Plenty of good instructionals on youtube etc and no need to spend a fortune either, there's an industry in peddling sharpening gear! Some of my favourite s sharpening gear was picked up secondhand for very little, including a very fine Belgian coticule stone and an old Norton Pike oilstone.

The arkansas stones come in hard and soft, hard is slower to break down and will leave a fine edge. Stropping gives the edge a polish removing the fine scratches from your best stone. It would be hard to over strop although if you can potentially round over the edge. Best to try stropping and see if this will restore the edge before breaking out the stones. I like the Victorinox knives, find the edge lasts well if not abused, I keep a Camper in the drawer at work, an Alox in the car and another one at home, a toolkit in a penknife, I'm a fan!

Be careful or you'll end up like me ; )

Before you know it you'll be buying Japanese waterstones, dry grinders with white wheels, a Tormek and a the jigs!

Slightly off topic but would any of ye have a link to where you would buy a bit of leather from

Pick up a leather belt in a charity shop, you could get 2 or 3 strops out of one. For small sheaths etc I've used scraps salvaged from old handbags and ladies boots. No need to buy new leather for small projects.

Knife and tool is a good place to pick up strops and compounds. You’ll get too hung up on the amount of gear on that site. I’ve a whole selection of gear that I sharpen with. I’ve a tormek that I sharpen my woodworking gear on. I use the leather stropping wheel on that for all my stropping now with some of tormeks PA70 honing paste. I’ve had lanskys and now I’ve a TSPROF.

Lansky system is sound

You hold the geometry with a gig.