Dovo red paste i have a strop pasted with red dovo it is infact like the old rouge i being a barber and noing a 78 year old barber he used coticule and red roug on leather i prefer issards paste that stuff can realy bring back an edge followed by cr.5 oxide is very good . red sovo does work and its easy to get old of i used it the other night i honed a blade on coticule stropped 40 laps on red and the edge was passing hht quite easy you have to try and see what you think good thing about dovo paste it goes on desd easy just put a thew pea sizes amounts on and rub in it will be dry in an hour.