Thread: Cerium Oxide: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Originally Posted by gssixgun

IMHO yes, either leather or felt... Lynn I do believe is using the felt or fabic on the SRD strops, maybe he will jump in here....

I was wondering how it works on the SRD webbing. I'm pretty lazy and the 2" webbing replacement is pretty cheap.... Or the back of my current webbing i suppose.

they have the orange looking cerium then they have supper cerium which is white this is the finer grade it s the same as the french cerium, you can get it on ebay under lapidary materials, they sell it buy the oz. or lb.

I've got pinkish cerium and I've been pretty pleased with it. I guess I lucked out b/c I've been putting it on fabric bench strop. I use it after CrO-reduced the number of laps on CrO and then use the Cerium. 15 CrO then 15 Cerium.

CeO comes in different grits. 30 years ago I used to use it in the geology lab for rock polishing. It's considered a premium polishing compound. Its hard stuff. I don't know about razors though.

I must also concur with the "little difference between crox and cerox." Although my initial findings are "no difference." I just can't tell the difference between a blade finished with crox and one with cerium. Could be my face, could be that I refuse to use cheap crox and only buy the best. Could be the medium. I don't know, these are just my initial findings; I have not done enough testing to actually get a statistically significant result.

But so far, no difference.

Very interesting results from you guys so far,
thanks for sharing!

- Scott