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I don't think tar is added to cigarettes; rather it's produced during combustion from the lighter vegetable oils naturally present in the tobacco. The manufacturing processes for cigars are designed...

Several months ago I was at my parents and I snagged some ash from their fireplace and tried it with good results. I'm still not sure why the cigar ash I mentioned earlier in this thread didn't...

That could be significant; my ash was gray. I removed it this morning - I enjoy honing, but I was getting tired of honing this particular razor...

ack! Mine was disastrous. I've tried it twice now and both times dulled the blade. If I use the other side of the linen then all is well. Maybe Partagas ash is finer than Punch ash...

Not necessarily. The abrasive particles are pretty certainly a lot softer than chrome oxide, so the particles themselves could be much larger and still cut very slowly.

No, I've been distracted by a series of shiny razors landing on my doorstep. But my binge is coming to an end - I did my last shave-test for awhile this morning so I'm gonna to resurrect this...

Same with my Punch-paste. See how it goes tomorrow...

No, any more than stropping will cause rounding. Lots of hangers were pasted back in the day, take a look at the strop section of Lynn's DVD, he's got a lot of old strops with pasted linen. The real...

Same is true for chrome oxide, at least the chapstick-tube CO I've been using. But if it'll make you happier I'll burn some oak in my grill and use that. The main impetus for using tobacco ash is...

Great minds think alike. I just picked up a vintage strop off ebay that I'm planning on treating with cigar ash on the linen side and soap on the leather side.

Lye is alkaline, and while it can significantly etch metals at very high pH levels (13-14) at low pH levels it inhibits the oxidiation reaction without significant etching. Most "rust inhibitors"...

Would the type of ash matter (hardwood vs softwood)?

Are you using the CO powder or the waxy chapstick tube? I'm using the tube and don't find it messy at all.

I've got a complementary experiment that may shed some light.

Back just before christmas, I did a stropping experiment where I took one razor (a 5/8 Clauss Barber's Special) and my handamerican...