My carbon steel blades easily take an edge from regular stropping and some passes on the 4 sided pasted paddle strop which has Chrom ox pastes on them.

My staineless steel blades need passes on the diamond pastes strop side to sharpen up. My Chrom ox pastes take a long time to sharpen up the stainless steel blades, while the diamond pastes takes a fraction of the time.

I like cleaning up all the razors real nice after using them, but if I didn't all I would buy would be the stainless steel razors.

Pabster