Thread: First Touch Up

+1 on the Naniwa 12k, thats a really great stone. You can also get barber hones on eBay for $25 - $50 dependant on the brand. They are great little stones and work very well for touch ups.

At the moment I'm using a coticule than off to leather Cro2, eagerly awaiting my Nakayama ... I don't know how that will affect my system but I'll just have to play with it till it works haha

ok so i have heard some good things about pasted strops. How can i acquire one of these? Can i merely treat the stop i currently have? Do i need one pasted strop and one bare strop?

Originally Posted by mcjacob71990

ok so i have heard some good things about pasted strops. How can i acquire one of these? Can i merely treat the stop i currently have? Do i need one pasted strop and one bare strop?

IMO you absolutely need an untreated .... bare strop as your daily driver. A treated strop used daily would be too much of a good thing. If you are not on a budget the modular paddle from Straight Razor Designs is the Cadillac of pasted strops. If you want to go more frugally any old strop, balsa .....even newspaper is good.