Thread: How is this for a paddle strop?

Paddle strops are a great way to learn stropping and perform blade maintenance This one looks fine short of arriving and being made of rotted leather or some other malady that does not show in the pictures. Definitely paste one side with .5 micron Chromium Oxide. It will put a wicked edge on a blade with little skill and keep you from needing an actual honing for quite a while. Don’t even bother with the diamond paste. You will like the results you get with CrOx better. Leave one side of this paddle “clean” or plain leather and use it for your every day pre-shave stropping. Move up to a hanging strop when you get good on the paddle, by then you may have reasons of your own to paste that other side.