I've just bought some balsa wood to try stropping with chromium oxide.
However the chromium oxide I have is a powder and I don't have any honing oil at home to mix it with.
Does it have to be a certain type of oil? What's to stop me just using olive oil?
Lastly when I strop on wood I do it like I strop on leather right? Ie the opposite way to how you hone on a stone?
Thanks.