Thread: Pasting a strop--a photo tutorial

Originally Posted by CloseShave

I got a bar of chromium oxide in bar form. Instead of reading this sticky, I ran the bar over the back of one of my hanging strops. It spread unevenly. It appears I should shave the bar into a bowl and add water to get a more even spread. Am I correct?

I just did this the other day and it works very easily.... Use whatever strop dressing yer going to use (I used neets foot) Take a very fine cheese grater and shave some of the bar into a small glass bowl filled with a small amount of the dressing, mix with finger and apply as Josh showed above works perfectly, and very easy... I stored the left over in a small AS sample bottle for future use, should be about 20 years before I need to do it again

PS: I said glass bowl for a good reason, some idiot I know well used the wife's Tupperware and left green Cr impregnated into the plastic!!!!!