Green Compound on cardboard or newspaper?
Hi, just got a J.C. Henckels from Ebay, so it's a cheap way for me to get into straight razor!
I ordered a leather strap but it's not here yet, I do have some chrome oxide. I'm wondering if I could put some on a cardboard or newspaper to refine the edge?
The razor came OK sharp with a tiny nick visible under direct light, I re-honed & fixed it using 600 -> 1200 diasharp diamond stone followed by 6000 waterstone, then stropped on newspaper. It came out not too bad and past the hanging hair test. However, it's not as sharp as my feather DE razor yet and I felt there was quite some drag during the shave, and virtually impossible to shave against the grain, although that's probably also because of my technique since it was my first shave... :P