Thread: Another way to apply pastes

A while back, I got some Dovo pastes. In the past, when I've tried to apply a paste from a tube, or wax paste, I've always gotten crappy results. Things usually end up looking like this:


Dovo white on homemade denim strop. This is after wetting and rubbing the paste out, it was worse before.


The paste is unevenly applied, with little hard spots where the paste has saturated the material. I didn't want to replicate these results. So, I searched around, and found a British website that sells Dovo pastes. It instructed purchasers to apply the paste to a cloth, then to rub the cloth on the strop. That sounded like a good idea, so I decided to give it a try. (I included this info because I didn't come up with this idea myself, and didn't want to make out like I had)

For this demonstration I have a "strop" which is several layers of newspaper taped to a board. I use this (not surprisingly) to strop on newspaper when I feel the need. I included the following as "before" shots.



Newspaper on board.


Again.



I drew a dividing line on the board b/c I plan to use two different pastes, and to mark the areas to be pasted. The box on the end is there b/c I marked out too small of an area the fist time, so I lengthened the dividing line and added another end line.

Uh-oh, we've got a problem. Strop cat has found the board, and isn't happy about there not being any paste--



No paste on strop?


I is want paste on strop right here now.



OK, strop cat! We'll get that paste on for you right away!