Thread: strop paste

right it seems all i can get away with here is DOVO pastes, im thinking green for polishing orange/red (are they the same grades?) for after the 8k norton. but theres also a black and red paste blocks availible, which dont give any comparison to the tube paste. heeelp!

According to the wiki the red is somewhere around 3- 5k and the Black is 1 - 3K.
The black is graphite, if I'm not mistaken and is a slower cutting paste than the diamond.

I have the black and red dovo paste but I have nothing to compare it as I haven't used the Crox or Diamond pastes....yet

thanks, got my 8k coming through so that sounds to course. so orange and green paste seems best option

Originally Posted by Choppedlogic

thanks, got my 8k coming through so that sounds to course. so orange and green paste seems best option

Finishing Pastes - Straight Razor Place Wiki

Green is even coarser, 5 - 8 micron. (Sorry, I put K in my last post, my slip, should have been microns.)

I'm not sure about orange.

i think its the diamond paste i want .50 .25. just realy exspencive!

Originally Posted by Choppedlogic

i think its the diamond paste i want .50 .25. just realy exspencive!

I got some diamond paste from eBay seller Open_Razor, less than $6 a tube and he combines shipping--I got three tubes for about $20, and the tubes are enough for plenty of pasting. Also, there's some outfit in Hong Kong selling the full range of diamond paste from like 12m to .25 for $30 shipped...there's a link around here somewhere...

thanks i got some 1M and 1/4M diamond paste from a rock polishing site for about £3.50 ($5-6?) but had to pick up the .5 from ebay at £8. ($12-13?)