I just received a 4 sided strop razor from Tony (thanks again) and now need to get ahold of sime pastes. I'm a grad student and have access to a polishing compounds of varying micron scales and materials. I can get diamond pastes at 9, 6, 3 micron and silica powder compounds at the highly touted 1, 0.5 and 0.25 micron levels. What I would like to know is whether anyone has used silica on there strops instead of just diamond pastes.

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