Thread: Chromium Oxide vs. Diamond Paste

I'm a newb, so Im sure Im screwing up here, but I have pasted my cowide strop with .25 diamond paste I give it about 10-15 strokes and then 60 on the Latigo, I'm not getting the type of edge I like, I want a super sharp but smooth edge. My edge seems a bit rough, and I get some razor burn from it. I'm not sure though as I have only shave 7 times with a straight so far, but I'm def getting razor burn. The edge is sharp though, not snagging any hairs, but not smooth either. If that makes sense to everyone. I'm going to try newspaper or .50 CrOX. I just bought a barber's hone maybe to take the edge down a bit to a lesser fineness. I'm not sure if I can do that, I'm kinda lost a little here with this stuff. I bought a prehoned razor, but now I feel the honing is really the coolest part of this whole thing. Ok thats my 2 cents on .25 diamond paste.

Oh I have the .50 diamond paste, not sure if that's any better of an edge over the .25 per se, I mean I was looking at the mircoscope images of the edges in the wiki, and it seems the CrOX and the Spyderco provide the best edges to the razors.

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hi at first welcome.
Now your blades should be sharp enough at first then you can use pastes.What i am trying to say.if your blade dull and you are trying to sharpen with chr02 it will take way long time to do so.What type hone you bought?name of it please.if this is barber hone you can it to keep edge sharp enough and use chro2 smooth it up.hope this helps

Hi hi_bud_gl, you should know the barber hone, I bought it from you lol.

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Ok sounds like good advice, I gave it 5 passes on the .25 diamond tonight and about 80 on the leather.

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on the strop the CrOx is smoother than the 0.25 micron diamond, but on balsa or a peice of paper, they seem about equal. The 0.1 micron diamond is the smoothest.

Interesting old thread here.
I just bought some .25 diamond spray and some .5 CO paste made by handamerica and sold up here in Canada online at classicedge.ca to try out.
I applied the CO to a balsa stropping board, and the diamond on a felt board.
To my magnifier and eye the .5 CO seems to shine the edge up better than the .25 diamond which surprised me.
I am waiting on a microscope add on for my iphone which will hopefully give me the ability to actually post the different edges I am getting so far as I get into this aspect of SRs more than I expected to.
Chasing a perfect edge seems perfectly logical to me now..
;-)

Forget about which shines better. It's about which gives the smoothest shave. I'd bet on the CrO.

a good edge is not done with paste or dimond sprays IMO thay only make it sharper as in thay only make the edge more agressive. you can make a scratch "free" bevel like this. it will give you a sharp edge but not smooth.

Shapton 16k


Here is same bevel, applying a jnat finish and it looks like this and feels 10 times better IMO.

JNat

Am i The only one thatuses .5 micron chromium oxide, then .1 micron iron oxide? I got it from whipped dog straights

I thought lots of guys used the red/green combination. It seems like a good setup to me. I just like my diamond paste. I know Whipped Dog sells a lot of those kits so somebody out there is using them!