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Has anyone pasted a strop with the crayon form of Chrom Ox offered at SRD?
I've read Josh Earl's sticky about pasting a strop with Chrom Ox powder and liquid, but how would you go about applying the crayon version? I'm assuming you would just rub it evenly in a thin layer all over the face of the paddle strop?
If you do that you'll almost certainly end up with too much. You don't need even coverage for it to work, and shooting for evenness causes you to overapply.
Just draw a light crosshatching X pattern on the strop, and rub it around as much as possible.
When its wax based it might help to pull it off with a warmed up scraper.
The chromium crayon from SRD is originally made by Mastro Livi. He coated a loom strop for me and put it on rather evenly, smoothing it out with a rag soaked in gasoline (really).
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Originally Posted by mparker762
That's exactly what I did with mine. Works great...
Dan,
Did you use a glove or something (cloth) when you rubbed it in, or did you just use your bare hand?
I just did the X pattern rub in with it not an hour ago with my bare hands.
Then again....I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. Just thought you should know. :)
I have one. I used it on one of Tony Miller's super wide paddle strops, I applied it right to the paddle via the crayon, nothing fancy, rubbed it in a bit with the palm of my hand, works great, lasts a long time. I like it, and it does a super job....
Just my bare fingers...Quote:
Originally Posted by Razorburne
I did the same thing. Don't be afraid to get your hands dirty.Quote:
Originally Posted by zib
I just bought a 3 inch felt / linen strop from SRD. Applied their diamond paste to the linen strop and used the SRD Chrom Oxide crayon on the felt strop. Just rubbed the crayon up and down the strop. Hopefully this was correct. Anyone apply the crayon to felt yet?
I applied my CrO to a Tony Miller paddle strop and it works wonderfully. Hadn't thought about using it on a felt strop. Others will have to chime in on this one... :jedi:
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Originally Posted by dkapp
Not at all afraid to get my hands dirty...I saw gloves being used in the tutorial and didn't know if for some reason this was a must (or a really good suggestion).
bare hands just seems like less of a hassle.....something I am very fond of ;)
You know what, sometimes as was said, you just have to get your hands dirty!
Actually, I would be afraid to get my hands dirty. There are enough toxic substances out there and I see no risk exposing myself to any more than necessary. Chrom Ox is a skin irritant at minimum. I don't see any need to risk exposure when it's so easy to avoid it. If you don't have rubber gloves, you can just stick you finger into a plastic bag and use that to spread it around.
+1 ~ Safety first with all chemicals.