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    I have been using slurry on leather quite regularly. The slurry is from a fine Chinese stone. It really improves the edge in many cases.

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    I have done this for years, and it works like magic. I find that the edge is actually sharp but "milder" on the skin, compared to diamond paste, but I suppose it depends on the stone you use.

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    Years ago, I tried this with slurry from a variety of stones. For years linen strops were pasted with Chalk.

    I found it was better to paste a strop with know abrasives and known uniform grit size down to. 010um, about 200K grit.

    Nano grit diamond has become very affordable, under $10 and readily available. If you want to experiment, paste cardboard, inside of cereal box. It is much like leather and if you don’t like it, you haven’t lost anything.

    To collect slurry, lap a stone with a diamond plate and rinse over a cookie sheet. let the slurry dry and harvest the dried slurry.
    Last edited by Euclid440; 09-29-2019 at 03:30 AM.

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