Can I use a cheap barber hone instead of 4000/80000?

You can also try here for lapped ready to go barber hones.
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Gem Star Customs - For Sale

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Originally Posted by Nervin

I just posted something earlier about a bad quality strop... Lemme say I would hold out for a reputable honing stone... .

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what's the significance/signs of a bad quality strop? where I live they only sell 1 kind of strop, quite cheap . the result seem ok but since I have never seen any other strops or the one on internet I dont know the differences

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Originally Posted by Castel33

PS With you not being able to purchase from ebay you may want to check the member map (http://straightrazorpalace.com/vbgoo...987087&zoom=19 ) for anyone near you and ask who they get there supplies from by pm

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Nice idea, but his closest neighbour appears to be someone called Smoothy in Singapore, 500 miles and a completely different world away. The density of users just doesn't appear to be the same as you come eastwards.