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With leather, you can just apply new paste on top of the old. With balsa, you can do that or lap off the old stuff and start over.

Tony's point about feedback is a good one. You get some draw...

I haven't settled on a routine for leather yet, since I tend to grab my balsa paddle. But I'd probably start with 5-10 strokes on the 1 micron, then maybe 15-20 on the chromium oxide.

If you're...

I'll second mparker on this one. Leather strops seem to cut a lot quicker than balsa ones. I started using pastes on little strips of balsa, and when I got my leather paddle I was overhoning edges by...

I used saddle soap lather to clean .5 diamond paste off my Tony Miller paddle strop. Tony doesn't endorse this, but it seemed to work fine for me. I applied Cr3O2 over the tiny bit of diamond residue...