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Chromium oxide strop paste2/18/2024 It was a little boring shaving with the same razor for a year. What happened was that after a week or two, all the stria was polished off the bevel to a mirror, the edge was laser straight and it shaved, keen and comfortable.Īfter a year, no appreciable blade width loss, was measurable. Years ago, on another forum several of us stropped the same razor on Chrome Oxide and shaved with that razor daily, for a year.Īt the time, it was said that too much stropping with Chrome Oxide would wear away too much steel over time. How long would a denim with crox paste keep an edge refreshed usually?” They also sell nanocloth strops pretreated with Jende diamond emulsion as well as diamond pastes, sprays and emulsions from DMT, Norton, and Jende. They used to be available through Chef Knives to Go, but you have to order directly from Ken Schwartz currently. The best ones though are made from nanocloth glued to the same backing. One is made from thin kangaroo leather glued to a glass backing. If you purchase a 3" wide by 3 ft long length of wood, you can cut into 12" lengths and have backers for the three pieces of leather. The leather can be glued to a 3" wide tile, balsawood, basswood, or plywood. A 8.5" x 11" sheet can be cut into three 2.8" x 11" strops. Hobby and Craft stores usually sell vegetable tanned leather for tooling purposes. If you use leather, you do not have to use expensive premade leather strops. They may not work as well for sprays or powders. They often have a textured surface that holds pastes well. I have also used polythylene cutting boards as a substrate. You can also use iron on fabric backing to reinforce the material should you want to use it for hanging. If the fabric is not heavy enough to use for a hanging strop, use glue sticks to adhere it to wood or tile backing. You can purchase flax linen, sailcloth, cotton canvas, denim, or polyester microfiber cloth from fabric stores. and the less you'll enjoy the experience until you do.I have applied ultra fine abrasives to a wide variety of substrates. I can promise you this though, the longer you go shaving on a deteriorating edge, the lower in grit you'll have to go to get it back to shave ready. you should read "The Method" by Slash McCoy for the easiest, most foolproof, least expensive means of maintaining your own razor if you do it his way. Your razor needs a touch up, per your description. I don't know that pasted leather paddle strops don't either, if only on a slower progression. The commonly accepted knowledge is that pasted hanging strops convex the edge as you use it to refresh the edge, and eventually, you need to go back to a progression on a flat surface, be it a stone, lapping film, or what have you. I've never used a pasted leather component, hanging or paddle. I've used balsa with CrOx (the green), FeOx (the red), with CBN sprays, and diamond paste as part of a honing progression or touch up. it's too irregular, and I have to assume it would make things worse.ĭid you also get a piece of balsa with a green and red side to it? Larry used to send those out, with the powder pouches to refresh the balsa as pasrt of the poor man's strop kit. I wouldn't do that to the unfinished side of any strop, or use the unfinished side, pasted or not. Perhaps, someone who uses pastes a lot will come along soon. Lots of folks use a piece of sanded/flattened balsa for a pasted strop, rather than leather. I think the green oxide is usually a little coarser than the red. Once you paste a strop that's it- no going back. If you have an old belt with a small good flat section, even on the back of the belt, that might be a better option to try than your hanging strop. I'd rather spend a few minutes on a stone(s). I have a small separate piece of leather glued to a small 5" piece of wood I use occasionally with iron oxide. Personally, I don't paste my hanging strops-too messy, as the red and green oxides are normally mixed with mineral oil and they can stain. It may or may not work- the edge might be too far gone, might not be. If that's the case, you can try a pasted strop to bring your razor back. I think you mean that stropping on leather alone is no longer keeping your razor sharp enough for you(?).
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