While waiting for my Dovo to arrive and get sent out for honing, I’ve been playing around with an el-cheapo razor I bought on ebay a month ago (before I found srp and knew better). For less than $10, incl shipping, it’s a piece of Pakistani junk.

Anyway, even though I don’t have a hone or strop, I’ve gotten it to pass the HHT and have even shaved my cheeks with it ( I daren’t go further). I “honed” it ( and I use the term lightly) with a small “India Medium Oilstone” I found in my toolbox and then stropped it on newspaper. But what seemed to really do the trick is that I rubbed green buffing compound on the paper first, and then did it again on a fresh paper with red buffing compound.

The compounds were in a buffing kit from Harbor Freight, the green one was labeled for stainless steel, and the red one was supposedly jewelers rouge.

I was really dumbfounded that it passed HHT, but I’m just wondering if anyone knows the grit size of green/red etc buffing compounds? I’ve tried google, but no luck, and I’m pretty sure that the colors are somewhat standard. How do these grit sizes compare with the chromium oxide or diamond paste sold as strop paste?

(don’t worry, I won’t be using this crude method on the Dovo!)