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    other than classic, any place to get 0.25 diamond paste?

    and is the TI paste finer than the HA 0.5 chromium paste and if so, how fine is it compared to the diamond paste

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    Quote Originally Posted by finsfan
    other than classic, any place to get 0.25 diamond paste?

    and is the TI paste finer than the HA 0.5 chromium paste and if so, how fine is it compared to the diamond paste
    sam
    Do a google search for lapidary supplies. Also check out the sprays.

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    Do a search for Amplex Diamond Compounds. Many industrial suppliers carry diamond pastes and there are several brands. Despite the high price Amplex is the mostr affordable I have found. I carried it for a few months but it is a very low markup item and for the limited amount I sold was not worth tying up money on.

    The material you want is water based, standard concentration. There are many types but this is what we use for razors.

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    well, i googled and three pages into it, never found prices. any links, just email me if you would

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    Fin,
    Third one down the page, Congress Tools <g>.

    http://www.congresstools.com/congres...244&parent=120

    Three grades, roughly $12.90 to $18.75. You want medium or standard grade, not light and water based not oil based.

    I am still a dealer for St. Gobain but stopped stocking pastes. The $18.75 is the going rate and that is below suggested retail and not much over wholesale. It does not get any better than that.

    I would just order from Classic and get some other goodies while you are there too.

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    i was reading at classicshaving that perhaps the 0.25 paste gets a razor too sharp. would you say that it is more, less or same sharpness as either a DE blade or feather straight blade?

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    Sam,
    I use 0.25 on all my razors and don't think they are too sharp. I actually fel bad as today a customer got one that was not sharp enough! Since I don't shave with customer razors to test them I can't be sure though.

    I typically use 3.0, 1.0, 0.5 and 0.25 and get good results on 90% of what I do first time.

    Not sure if Ray has the 3.0 though but he has all the others. I just bought my Dovo pastes from him to try on balsa strops.......kind of wanted to go the nostalgic route and use traditional pastes on the older style strops.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tony Miller
    Sam,
    I use 0.25 on all my razors and don't think they are too sharp. I actually fel bad as today a customer got one that was not sharp enough! Since I don't shave with customer razors to test them I can't be sure though.

    I typically use 3.0, 1.0, 0.5 and 0.25 and get good results on 90% of what I do first time.

    Not sure if Ray has the 3.0 though but he has all the others. I just bought my Dovo pastes from him to try on balsa strops.......kind of wanted to go the nostalgic route and use traditional pastes on the older style strops.

    Tony
    Tony,

    You don't use a hone at all? What are your thoughts on this Hone vs. strops.

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    Rich,
    I take my guidance from Clint Eastwood..."a man has to know his limitations". I am not a honer, plain and simple. I got off to a bad start with hones, dulling a few perfectly good razors and then switched to pasted strops. I do have a large coillection of barber hones (thanks Tilly) and use them occasionally but get my best results with pastes. I have not spent enough time with any to really be a good judge of what a hone can or cannot do but do know what a pasted strop can and cannot do and except for playing around, use them exclusively.

    That said though I choose my razors wisely to match my sharpening skills and tools. I rarely buy eBay specials any more prefering well maintained, upper end razors or new razors I can easily keep in good order with just a pasted strop. A new out of the box, not quite shave ready razor can be sharpened effectively with just a pasted strop. The usual eBay find, even if not nicked but with a "butter knife" edge cannot. A hone is the only tool for that job unless you have few spare weeks and a 5 gal. bucket of 9 micron paste <g>.

    I feel pasted strops are easier for a beginner to learn on and make a good first step. A beginner will usually start with either a new boxed razor or one sharpened by a member here. It is either shave ready or close and he can quickly learn to keep it so on a pasted strop. He can therefore get on with shaving right away and concentrate on shaving, not sharpening. A little later on as the current razor gets dull or nicked or he gets lured in by the beauties on eBay and can then get a hone and learn even more and already has some sharpening experiencce to fall back on.

    I see strops and hones as complimentary tools, one does not exclude the other but oinly adds to the others capabilities.

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    Tony,


    Thanks. I know what you mean about hones. They are tricky. However I am also an ebay shopper for my razors and have gotten a few butterknives where I needed a hone. I guess I will have to expand my limitations and become a better honer. My problem has been consistancy, one day I will get one shave ready and the next I will be making butterknives. I do have one that was honed by Lynn so I have something to compare to. I also have a flatbed hone from Hand American that I use with Cromium Oxide paste they provided. That is my finishing step before regular stropping with plan leather. I guess there is no easy way out.


    RichZ

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