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How do I contact this Chris L. I tried to send him a message but I was unable to.

I went to the flashchat barbershop chat room but no one is in there.

So what do you think of the idea of honing, useing the red paste, the .5 Cr paste, and then the leather strop.

Where can I...

Can I put the diamond paste on a loom strop? Classicshaving.com says that it should be used with a with a high quality compressed leather bench hone.

Thanks for all of the info, you have given me alot to think about. It is very interesting how the hone become less abrasive as it dries out.

What paste would you suggest ...

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I don't have many surfaces to put paste on. I have a loom strop with red dovo paste and bare leather. I wanted to paste the bare side with a paste to help transition the edge from hone to strop. ...

What do you mean by 'letting it go to dry to squeak the most out of it'?

And how does newspaper compair in coarseness to the pastes?

So I should nix the dovo green paste, and put .5 micron diamond paste on a strop, then progress from the hone to the red paste, the .5 micron diamond paste, then the leather strop?

I do about 20-30 laps with the red paste.

When I hone, I do the pyramid reps suggested in The World of Straight Razor Shaving. 3-3 1-3 1-5 on 4000/8000k norton. Then I strop with the red paste...

What about the dovo red paste? Should I use it after I hone?

I just watched 'The World of Straight Razor Shaving' again and Lynn said that the green paste, it looked like the dovo paste, was .5 microns.

Can anyone confirm this?

I am getting an OK shave after honing but I want my razors sharper.

I don't have a coticule stone, but I have a dovo loom strop with green and red dovo pastes, and a linen and leather dovo hanging...