Thread: wife show this to me last night

my wife show this to me, and i felt i should post it here, and let yall chime in on it. i am copying this verbatum from where it is printed.

Treatment for razor:
It is claimed a very keen edge can be put on a dull razor by stropping same on a strop which has been treated with fine valve grinding compound and finishing up on a strop treated with crocus powder or precipitated chalk. The latter may be secured from your jeweler.


dont know how acurate this is, but thought you would like to read that.

Sounds like more work than I'd want to put into it

That would be listed under "What to do when the world ends, and you have dulled your blade"...

So...Essentially what all these strop pasters do out there already. Except now they use stuff like 'Crox' and 'Jewellers Rouge', etc. Valve grinding paste...Yewwwwwww! How Industrial!...


Mick

I din't know a lot about stropping, but I put flitz o the webbing and strock it about ten times ten put it to leather...

Originally Posted by MickR

So...Essentially what all these strop pasters do out there already. Except now they use stuff like 'Crox' and 'Jewellers Rouge', etc. Valve grinding paste...Yewwwwwww! How Industrial!...


Mick

Yep this strikes me as the most plausible interpretation of that quote. Essentially they are referring to a kind of abrasive paste which is exactly what Crox, diamond paste, Dovo Black, & Dovo red etc etc are. They are just abrasive pastes used on a strop. Some people like them some people don't. It can be done but I don't think one can keep using a pasted strop indefinitely to maintain an edge.

When I experimented with pastes they certainly finished a honed blade nicely but after a while of touching up on pasted strops it felt to me that the blade had to go back to the hone. There's probably a technique to avoid this so take it cum grano salis.

Hope that helps.

Best Regards,
EL

Hey, in the old days us poor folk use what we find to keep our razors sharp. We don't have no fru-fru rich guys stuff.