Thread: green paste

After finishing honing on a 12k finishing stone would it be ok to strop on leather strop with green paste and then finish on the tan side. what is the benifit of green paste and when is the best time to bring green paste into use. thanxs gary

What exactly do you mean by green paste? Chromium Oxide? DOVO green colored abrasive paste?

If your using a 12k finishing stone, have you tried to just strop after without the paste?

Try it both ways and see if you ask me, some razors may like that paste, some may like the hone. Also what kind of 12k is it?

Sorry its a kitiyama stone and i was thinking about buying the dovo paste . it does say it not abrasive but from what i have read on the forum it seems it is abrasive

Dovo Green is the most aggressive in their series it goes Green, Red, Black, White...
What I have read is, the Green is 3-5 micron the Red is 1-3 and the Black is .5-1 so anything over the 1 micron would be going backward on the 12k stone.... And the White paste????? never have seen anything on that one.....
Also the micron sizes may not be exact !!!!!! so take that with a grain of salt.....

A guy named ChrisL was offering sample-size packets of chromium oxide, which is the "green paste" most of us refer to. This stuff is around 50,000 grit, and it's used after your finishing hone. It puts an amazingly smooth, sharp edge on the razor. Unfortunately, the edge doesn't last as long as an edge from a hone would. But touch-ups are quick and easy, so you might find that it's worth the tradeoff.

The Dovo pastes are OK. Go for the red and black pastes, not the yellow and green ones. The black paste is a decent finisher.

Josh

The red is actually pretty agressive, as mentioned, it is like 2-3 micron, not really a "finishing" paste. I have some, and don't use it for much except to help buffing out eboy blades.

+1 to recommend trying out Chromium Oxide

Alternatively I would go with good quality diamond pastes. If they are good quality they should have much tighter tolerances than the DOVO pastes.

Is the white paste a barely abrasive substance used on the linen?

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

Is the white paste a barely abrasive substance used on the linen?

It is used on linen, the questionable part is whether it is an abrasive at all???
Personally I think it does have a very very fine polish in it, but I have never been able to find that written anywhere, maybe someone else knows for sure....