Thread: My experience and some advice

I love your insight in a diamond paste pasted strop for easier sharpening !
Do you have the strop sides pasted with different grits?

Can anyone care to comment more on this idea?

Thanks for your comments everyone!
The paste I use is 0.5 micron diamond paste. I frankly don't understand how the hone-meisters get similar results with the honing stone only (although I have only tried one two-grit stone, I tried this for months without anything close to comfortable results. Maybe I should have tried different stones). The stone is useful to get rid of nicks in the blade, though.

I have to admit that the TI steel seems to be of very high quality. Very nice and shiny, and I managed to get part of the blade extremely sharp. It is very possible that Thiers-Issard himself was a master razor-maker but he is of course long gone. I will check out the rolling X technique. Thanks for the tip.

Judging from Lynn's comments, he seems to be happy with some of his TI's, does anyone else have good things to say about Thiers-Issard? If so, which specific razor(s)?

TIs are OK but not currently among my favorite razors. While they sharpen up fine and shave fine, I find that I much prefer a 1/4 hollow grind in either a 6/8 or 7/8 razor.