Thread: Finishing Pastes..0.5, 0.25 or Chromium?

Tony,

Thanks for the help you have given many of us and your great products!!!!!

I use the green stuff on balsa exclusively. Anything more and it goes to the hone.

When I first started using diamond paste, I had a tendency to overhone creating a slight wire edge. I compensated by doing a final polish with CrO. Since those early days, I have learned to use my diamond pastes down to 0.25 micron more effectively. However, I often do a final polish on newspaper after using 0.25 to get a really superb edge. Newspaper tends to be the equivalent of about 0.1 micron in terms of a finishing medium.

Having said all of that, I have a strop that has CrO on it and I find it much more convenient that pulling out my pasted paddles. So, for general maintenance, a razor usually gets refreshed on the CrO strop until it needs to go back to the yellow coticule stone for a more intense refresh than can be accomplished on a CrO strop. Granted this stone is still a polishing medium but I find I can use it for a very long time before having to go back to a more coarse hone.