Thread: Pastes

I am curious if anyone has tried acrylic paint as a paste for stropping their straight razors. I live in Dubai and there are aboslutely no options here for shaving supplies much less razor sharpening supplies. I have searched the internet for Chromium Dioxide but many businesses dont have webpages here and no one is of any help in finding these types of things.

I read somewhere at the shaveden that people have used green acrylic paint to strop with but it sounds like they are using a powders form and adding that to an acrylic base. I cant even find the powder form here but I can find the liquid form.

Other options I am thinking about is going to one of the diamond dealers here and seeing if they have any diamond powder or even jewellers paste used to polish gem stones. Maybe that will work but I am not holding my breath. Metal polish like what you use for car wheels as well.

I can also order from the US but that is a hassle as well as I have to pay shipping and pay customs duties but more so having to wait in customs as nothing is efficient here.

Any ideas?

Hi there and a warm welcome, are you the first in Dubai...?!
If mail order is definately out, then jewellers rouge (polish) is good and also metal polish (Solvol Autosol - here in the uk), is really good used on newspaper and cheap......! Snoop around the site, there are loads of posts on stropping with metal polish and newspaper.
Good luck and keep us posted!

Originally Posted by nurse42312

Hi there and a warm welcome, are you the first in Dubai...?!
If mail order is definately out, then jewellers rouge (polish) is good and also metal polish (Solvol Autosol - here in the uk), is really good used on newspaper and cheap......! Snoop around the site, there are loads of posts on stropping with metal polish and newspaper.
Good luck and keep us posted!

Hey thanks for the reply man. I actually bended and went and ordered the CrOx from Hand American as well as the diamond spray.

Has anyone had experience with the diamond spray?

No worries. I use diamond paste and find them good. For your info, for what it's worth, my regime for touching up an edge is, 8k Norton, diamond pastes 2,1,0.5 microns, a red paste from Karacoup1 (on this site) & stropping on a home made leather stop dressed with olive oil. I use the diamond paste on MDF paddles at the moment, but intend making individual leather strops for each paste when I get the time.
I haven't heard of diamond spray. Can you enlighten us?
Best wishes,

Mark.......

Originally Posted by seniorbrucio

Hey thanks for the reply man. I actually bended and went and ordered the CrOx from Hand American as well as the diamond spray.

Has anyone had experience with the diamond spray?

Can't recall the post but I know that I read somewhere that the diamond spray was good for getting an even coat on a surface. Here is a general 'how to' by Josh Earl on pasting a strop. Seems like the rule of thumb is less is better then more.

Originally Posted by JimmyH-AD

Can't recall the post but I know that I read somewhere that the diamond spray was good for getting an even coat on a surface. Here is a general 'how to' by Josh Earl on pasting a strop. Seems like the rule of thumb is less is better then more.

It was Lynn who said the diamond spray was good here.

Originally Posted by nurse42312

No worries. I use diamond paste and find them good. For your info, for what it's worth, my regime for touching up an edge is, 8k Norton, diamond pastes 2,1,0.5 microns, a red paste from Karacoup1 (on this site) & stropping on a home made leather stop dressed with olive oil. I use the diamond paste on MDF paddles at the moment, but intend making individual leather strops for each paste when I get the time.
I haven't heard of diamond spray. Can you enlighten us?
Best wishes,

Mark.......

Thanks for your comment Mark!

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Finally my HandAmerican products arrived!

I got me a corian/steel base plus 3 full grain bovine leather pads and a felt pad. The kit came with the liquid CrOx plus powdered CrOx. In addition I ordered the full sized liquid CrOx and powder CrOx which might be much more than I need.

I also got the diamond spray so I cant wait to try these out.

I used a bit of Collonil leather gel on the bovine pads to give it some conditioning and waterproofness.

Has any one used Collonil products?