If I go with a 4-sided paddle strop, does it make sense to get 1.0 & 0.5 diamond, as well as 0.5 chromium to do the final smoothing of the blade?

also, I have never worked with chromium before and I hear that it is messy.....is it a problem to put the chromium on one of the 4 sides of the paddle strop? should I have a separate bench hone dedicated to the chromium?