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08-22-2008, 10:27 PM #1
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Thanked: 0Polishing after honing with pastes
I am getting an OK shave after honing but I want my razors sharper.
I don't have a coticule stone, but I have a dovo loom strop with green and red dovo pastes, and a linen and leather dovo hanging strop. After doing pyramids on the norton 4000/8000k, I have been using the red dovo paste to polish the edge, then I strop with leather. I am still not happy with the results. Is there some step that I am missing?
I am afraid of overing honing so I am trying to use pastes to finish my edge. I just ordered the green dovo paste because I thought that I needed something coarser then the red paste. But after reading threads today, I think the green paste might be too coarse. Classicshaving.com says it is 6 microns coarse which I just learned is coarser than the 4000k norton. I haven't put the green paste on my loom strop yet because I know that once you put it on you can't get it off.
Does anyone use the green dovo pastes?