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Well, once again y'alls advice was just what the doctor ordered. I stropped before going to the hone to do a touch up. Did the touch up and stropped normally. This was last night. Tonight I shaved...

Hand American has chrome ox in liquid, paste and dry. I presume the paste is what I'd want for the leather bench hone?

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I just followed your link and read the description, it mentioned something about leaving a light wax film. Do you find this to be true on your razor and is it easily wiped off?

Great, thanks for the help. I'm going to check out HandAmerican when I get ready to get the bench hone.

OK - then here's another question. I'm no chemist and am really ignorant of some of these things but are the boron and chrome safe? I'm thinking because I have small children in the house. Boron and...

Would you recommend the chrome and boron over the diamond paste?

Good point! I had forgotten about this. How much of the Cr02 do you rub on and what is the grit equivalent?

Well, I touched up the razor last night on the hone and stropped according to all y'all's instructions (it wasn't exactly the prettiest thing to watch but I didn't slice the strop and practice will...

You know, that makes such sense now that you explain it. I think we need a "Doh!!" smiley.

Thanks! I can get a picture of that easily. And, yes, I am learning about the skin stretching so whiskers stand up (I'll have to be extra careful in some spots as it will put my fingers in front of...

Mike:

Keep at it. Although it may not sound it from my questions, my shaves are very decent. I'm just looking for that additional improvement that will make me a better shaver, with a better shave...

OH, thinking of it let me run this past all y'all:

I said even after 3 passes, I don't get really close. Thinking about this for a while I have discovered that this is the case primarily along my...

Is there any way to describe those 6-12 zones? It might help my chin shave as well.

I've been hearing good things on the chrome oxide. It seems to give a smoother edge over the diamond paste, from what I understand. Thanks for the idea !

If I understand this right, I should be using fluid motion on the strop instead of a start/stop motion. I can't think of a good analogy but basically stropping should be one continuous motion. Am I...

I do get the rasping sound on the trip. The other sound is only when I stop and lift the edge off the strop to roll it (on the spine) in preparation for the opposite trip.

I will make sure to...

I'll look for that article on the ting. Let me describe the stropping technique:

1. very light pressure.
2. I don't use an X patter as I have a 3" wide strop so the whole blade stays on the...

I've been using a Norton 4k/8k to try and get my razor to a sharp enough condition to last longer than 3 shaves before needing to be rehoned.

Lynn has been helping me with pyramids and such (big...