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    Default Strop Paste fro a Rolls Razor

    Does anyone know what strop paste I should buy for a Rolls Razor I purchased from ebay?

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    I've used ordinary leather conditioner stuff from a saddlery shop on my three. seems to work just fine.

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    Thanks for that. I just used leather cream on the strop and it brought it back from a dry old piece of leather to an nice looking strop. I am not sure about all the different strop pastes. I presumed because strop paste has fine grit in it that it was the grit that got the blade sharp?

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    I do have a tiny tub of the Rolls dressing that came with one of my ebay specials and it's quite soft, like a shoe cream rather than the waxy dressing stuff. It's also red and brings the colour back to the old leather. Doesn't seem to do any more than the saddle stuff though. I don't think it's an abrasive dressing.

    Might get some of the abrasive strop paste and put it on one of my three for quick touch ups.

    They are great razors. Sort of a chunk of straight with a handle. I use mine quite a lot.

    Oh, and welcome to SRP. Just noticed these were your first posts! Enjoy yourself

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    If you have only one strop for your Rolls you should avoid putting abrasive paste on it. A piece of heavy watercolour paper cut to size and charged with green chromium paste will work quite nicely and wont need to be attached to the strop in any way. Just lay it on top and strop as you normally would.

    goshawk

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    Beeswax, the kind that you use to protect shoes from water etc. Works great.

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