Thread: Using Dovo White

Hey everyone...

If I paste one side of my Cotton strop with dovo white and leave the other side should I

A) Strop on the pasted 25 then plain cotton 25 then leather 50

B) Strop on the pasted 25 then go straight to leather for 50

Don't use on one side white paste and leave another alone?
You use white strop on linen that is it.
What it does. Example you make before 50 laps on linen after strop you will need to make 25 then move to leather.
hope this helps.

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

Don't use on one side white paste and leave another alone?
You use white strop on linen that is it.
What it does. Example you make before 50 laps on linen after strop you will need to make 25 then move to leather.
hope this helps.

I dont quite understand...are you saying just do the 25 laps on the white pasted cotton then go to leather???

Originally Posted by erictski

Hey everyone...

If I paste one side of my Cotton strop with dovo white and leave the other side should I

A) Strop on the pasted 25 then plain cotton 25 then leather 50

B) Strop on the pasted 25 then go straight to leather for 50

Use the pasted side of the cotton, then go direct to the leather. Works great.

Originally Posted by erictski

I dont quite understand...are you saying just do the 25 laps on the white pasted cotton then go to leather???

yes that is right. wipe the blade before moving to leather.

Once you've used it a few times then you won't need to wipe off the blade before switching to the leather side. After a few uses the white paste will be packed into the fibers and any excess will have been scraped off by the stropping. The white paste is just chalk and you're using it every day anyway, so once it's settled into the linen then any microscopic bits of carryover won't hurt the blade or the leather. With the diamond and chrome oxide abrasives this is an entirely different matter; you only want to use those every few weeks or months, but even microscopic bits of diamond or chrome oxide on your leather strop will turn it into an aggressive hone and accelerate the wear on your blade, even invisibly small amounts of these compounds will hone surprisingly well, and you generally don't want that happening on your daily strop.

My first strop has the dovo white paste on the linen side and I used to use it daily.

I'd do 25 linen then 50 - 60 leather before each shave, then 10 linen and 10 - 15 leather afterwards. It works great!

Now I have a new strop which is unpasted, I still use the canvas and white stuff after each shave for a couple of laps, just to help keep the edge.

Since the white paste is just chalk, is there a reason to not use plain old blackboard chalk on the fabric strop?

Originally Posted by Pearlcaster

Since the white paste is just chalk, is there a reason to not use plain old blackboard chalk on the fabric strop?

I suppose if you ground the chalk up extremely finely you could do that. Be you would still need to mix the dust into some sort of paste to make it stick to the strop, and to ensure its the right consistency so you cover the strop with the correct amount of chalk.

Any reason you couldn't just run a piece of chalk over the strop and rub it in with your hand?