![]() One guy sent me a mix of wax and a Chormox he got on Amazon and to be honest, I wouldn't use it to polish the gutters on a house. I am not sure about brands or whatever - all I know is that I threw mine in the garbage. Some guys have claimed to have good experiences with them. Do not use that stuff for final finish or tuneups.Ĭheap compound sticks from Amazon have proven to be terrible IMO. It's about 6 µm average and you can actually use it to set a bevel. There are zero absolutes here.ĭovo green chromox in a tube is much more coarse that the stuff we use to finish. That is 'Usually' - but do not assume this to always be true. The better variants of this green powder has a pretty decent particle size distribution so you're assured of a fairly even edge. What we want to use, for finishing or edge tune-ups, is a quality compound that is relatively fine - like the typical. I would be more inclined to go spine leading. I can also assume a certain technique was involved and required, but I didn't investigate. Dovo used to recommed honing wedges on their loom strops, edge leading. Dovo, and other german companies that make leather-fitted loom strops, offer them charged with abrasives - either FeOx, Chromox or both sometimes. Pastes like to travel on their own and you don't want to get it on your main leather/fabric set up.Įveryone should know that paste on leather is not a new or uncommon concept. But if the nylon strop is attached to the leather in any way - I'd just get another strop that is seperate. I have not found nylon or plastic types of strops to be all that effective for regular or pasted efforts. I want to believe that a smooth leather will produce a smoother finish on the edge but I have not found that to be true or false. My personal jury is out on the topic of smooth vs rough sides. In fact, his method of mixing with mineral oil as a carrier is quite an excellent technique. I think many people use the pastes, sprays or whatever at the end of their normal honing progression to bump the edge up to the next level, not as a way to avoiding future honing.Īs Legion has shown above - using Chromox on leather is very much ok. My honing progression now days is synthetic stones then finish on a Jnat then strop off clean leather only, thats what my face likes best. I tried both again off a balsa strop and my face still hated the diamond, but the crox and iron oxide were closer to a natural stone finish. I have played with diamond sprays and crox off a hanging strop and my face hated the edge, way too keen for me. ![]() Im not sure about overcooking on edge on crox or paste off a balsa strop, but I believe the same problem exists, especially if you are new to shaving and stropping. ![]() You can easily overdevelop an edge (overcooked) using diamond spray and it becomes fragile and starts to crumble when you shave and feels truly awful, after that you have to take it to the hone to correct the problem. You will need to have the razor honed or hone it yourself at some point. Like Shawn said, no at least not on a hanging strop.lapped balsa block aka a balsa strop.maybe, but I would be doubtful. Visit the honing sub-forum and look around theres lots of different ideas about maintaining an edge, films, stones or sending it out to a pro. Cutlery related sites have the pastes and sprays or Amazon. Picking up a separate strop just for the pastes and sprays is also not a bad idea. Many folks use lapped balsa strops to great effect, with sprays and pastes or powders. You'll really have to play around with it to see what your face likes, how many laps etc. 1 or Cubic Boron Nitrite in the same increments. 1 micron on a daily or weekly basis to keep the edge sharp. Crox isnt used on a daily basis only when the edge starts to tug a bit, some folks do use. 5 microns, after that would be Iron Oxide at. That means rinsing the blade after using the pasted fabric, maybe palm strop it a bit then rinse again, dry it then go to the clean leather to finish. You want to avoid contaminating the clean leather part of the strop you use last to finish the edge on. Normally the pastes go on the fabric component of the strop and very very, very, sparingly.
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