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Before purchasing another hone get your plain leather strop cleaned up and also clean up the pasted balsa wood using the same Goop( just an idea, I do not know if that will work but the black stuff...

I will bet that the "black ice" is metal filings and paste. If you are not cleaning your razor before you then go to the plain leather strop then the plain leather strop is now contaminated.

Just...

Try cleaning your strop with Goop, the hand cleaner and using a nylon Scotchbite stripping pad being careful to move the pad only from the top to the bottom of strop. This may help to remove any...

Really good post!:)

This should start some really interesting experimentation!:thinking:

Why is this working on so many of your blades?:confused: I don't know the answer but could it be that...