Quote Originally Posted by Sandycrack View Post
This was very helpful. Thank you.

So - in short
More laps on the strop is better than fewer laps - with correct form.
CrOx improves the edge.
Linen is better than webbing (with or without CrOx).

Is that right? I do strop my razors on a CrOx pasted jute strop and it works awesome, but I only do it as a touch up when stopping on the leather doesn't seem to be doing as good a job. When CrOx doesn't get it, I go to the Swaty barber hone. After that, it's in for proper honing.

I used to strop freshly honed razors on the CrOx strop, but stopped after reading a few things on this forum. Now it's just touch ups.

Sandycrack
Well, the photos can be interpreted lots of ways I suspect. I'll be interested in hearing what people think.

I didn't have microchip ping or problems, so I'm not sure if the Cr-Ox would help there, but it clearly did make some stria on the edge.

Doing more on linen or leather, improved a small amount, but not much, AFAICT.

Seemed like the linen was a faster way to polish the edge, than the leather.

The lightly and heavily coated Cr-Ox seemed to perform the same (I only did 5 on one, and 10 on the other, so will have to recheck at some point).

I didn't have linen with Cr-Ox, so I can't tell if better than webbing.