Thread: More paste questions

I use Dovo red, then Dovo black, and like finishing up with Chromium Oxide 0.5 micron paste. (Just recently got Chromium Oxide 0.3 micron powder, which I will be trying.) All these pastes are applied to balsa wood.

I don't pay attention as much to the number of passes. But, using a $12 Radio Shack microscope, I move from one paste to the other based on appearance of the edge and bevel. Sometime in the future, I suspect that I will know more about average number of passes. But, even then, with the dozen razors I have experimented with so far, I fully expect the number of required passes to vary fairly widely based on the metal.

It's frustrating because we all try for something quantitative. Maybe it does come down to feel, based on experience...