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Brilliant. I'll try it.

Most tooth paste has calcium carbonate as a grit which is softer than steel. I don't think that it would do much.

Although I have heard that some brand of tooth paste is switching to silicon...

I'll try that next.

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Olive oil is too thin. It flies everywhere and stains you clothes green :rolleyes:.

I guess there is a lag editing posts.

That kind of confirms an idea I've had tossing around in the back of my mind. I think that the chromium oxide grit from Lee Valley tools has other coarser stuff in it. They say primarily CrO, but...

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Hand lotion doesn't work as a base. It dries out too quickly and gunks up.

I thought I read this a much longer time ago. I guess not :).

http://straightrazorpalace.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=174667

Ah well....

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=32984&cat=1,43072

It comes in a bar format, kind of like a gritty crayon. I grated it on that fine side of a grater that no one ever uses. It...

I was inspired by reading about using chromium oxide grit as a polishing compound a while ago, so I can't take credit for the idea, but what follows is my own recipie:

1-2 tablespoons of...