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Interestingly, after starting to use a combo canvas/leather strop in addition to very occasional touch-ups on my slurried strop (it's been a few weeks since last time I had to use it), my high-carbon...

I recently had another great experience using slurry as strop paste.

Recently, one of my newly honed razors became dull at the tip (toe) due to a slight mishap. Nothing really bad, but it felt...

I should probably warn people not to overdo this "experiment", particularly not if you are using slurry from the grittier water stones on your strop.

This is true for diamond paste as well: I...

Thanks for the feedback. Did the razor slide over the strop effortlessy, or was there drag? With me, the razor movement is as if there is no friction whatsoever. The sharpening action is still very...

Thanks for the replies guys! (sorry, I meant "slurry" of course; any way we can correct the title of this thread?)

Lynn is probably rigth that I used too much diamond paste, but I found that it...

Here's an idea that seems to be working surprisingly well.

First, I oiled one of my strops with a very thin layer of oil (yellow paste should do the same trick). I did this to avoid the slur...