Thread: Yellowstone Compound

Originally Posted by Pete_S

So Ceruim is radioactive? That is so cool! I wonder what superpowers I'm gonna get.

If nothing else your razors will glow like never before.

Originally Posted by bassguy

they have a spray for this stuff? I though it doesn't do well in water and needed a soap?

Cerium Oxide New Spray Bottle with Super Cerium Oxide -- Covington Model No. SSSB001 at Delta One Lapidary Supplies

I've seen tutorials on mixing cerium oxide with water to use for glass polishing. Seems like most people just fill squirt/spray/squezze bottle with a 50/50 mix to get a sort of medium thick coating consistency. I kind of pictured it clogging up a spray bottle though but I've never used it so....

just reporting my own experiences:
sprinkled some onto a felt pad, taped the spine of a helje, maybe 10 laps, the stropped as I normally would. Took a hair to the razor, which never fails HHT anyway, but this popped pretty quickly.
The shave: the blade felt sticky, like it was sucking to my face somehow. Could have been the soap (QED rose/sandalwod), who knows. The shave was fun, effortless, and I am the smoothest I have ever done myself yet. No irritation. This stuff seems to work great, but also cuts fast. I'd be hesitant to use it too often.

Glen, the link you had to where you got your cerium is broken. Any chance we could get a new one?

I'm also wondering if this could be a good polishing agent to put in the vibrating polisher.

I may have missed it in this massive thread. But has anyone used it with a felt wheel on a dremel for polishing?

Yes, works well.

Originally Posted by FloorPizza

Glen, the link you had to where you got your cerium is broken. Any chance we could get a new one?

I'm also wondering if this could be a good polishing agent to put in the vibrating polisher.

If you mean one of those things they use to polish rocks, then maybe. The instructions on the lapidary sites I've seen say to mix it with water and form a slurry, don't know if you use a slurry in those things.

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You might want to check with the opticians.
They use it to polish glass and add stuff to pour their own polishing things.

I actually joined this blog because of this thread! I do not use a straight razor (yet..!) but I do sharpen knives.
While I was training at Quantico nearly 20 years ago, I went into a small shapening shop near Manassas and the old guy there was selling what he called "knife honing sticks" that were actually pigskin strops on oak boards. He suggested and I bought a bar of "Yelowstone Honing Compound" and I have been using it ever since. NOTHING I have ever found or tried compares to this material on a strop, at least for finishing knives. If you scrape the bar with the edge of a knife blade the compound comes off as powder, which is then worked into the leather strop and works its "magic." I am enjoying the wealth of technical information and knowledge shared on this site, excellent discussions!


I never used much of it because I could not ever find the pure powdered form of it.... Let us know if you find it in powder PLEASE....[/QUOTE]

Welcome to srp! I really like the yellow stone compound too and think its the best paste I used. It just makes the edge super smooth to the skin. I have yet to use it on leather, just linen.