Please regard the second paragraph as a prelude to the rest of the post.

Some of you might remember several years ago when Ron H [UTOPIAN] posted his idea of cutting the side out of a cereal box and using the INSIDE surface of the cardboard as a dry pasted bench strop. I took him seriously and attached the cardboard to an 8x3x3/8 glass with finished edges all 4 sides and treated the surface of the cardboard with .1 micron iron oxide.

That having been said, I have found that a quick finish procedure for a blade fresh off the 8k goes like this:

5 to 8 laps on a barber hone w/lather [ I use Aloxite Barber Hone, Swaty will do nicely ]
20 to 25 laps on slurried Thuringian
30 laps on GY20k plain water
50+ laps on said cardboard with .1 micron fe/ox
Strop 80 to 100 laps leather and shave

The shaves I am getting from this procedure are some of the best shaves of my shaving life. That amounts to just over 45 years. I am a progression nut. I try any progression the pops into my head and once in awhile I hit the bullseye. This is one of those times.

Just thought I would share another progression with you guys.