Forego pastes/sprays completely?
Hi there. If one is on a tightly constrained budget, what are your thoughts about the following:
4k/8k Norton, then natural Chinese water-stone,
forgoing any diamond/chromium oxides paste stropping at all,
then going straight from the Chinese stone (I don't like using 12k in reference to the Chinese stone) to the dry linen then leather standard stropping, to shaving...
Any issues with doing it that way? (just assume that the technique is good, for the sake of the question above.)