New to straight razors stropping advice?
Ok so im looking into strops, i want to get something that would be useful for both my straight razors as well as my chef knives if possible. I use high quality chef knives, and i have natural water stones up to about 20-30k grit.
i was curious if one could just strop on the whetstones to refine the edge or if a strop is really necessary? I know it works with my knives would it work for a razor?
If not which is the best for stropping, lether, felt, balsa, not really into pastes much trying to not spend a lot of money reasoning behind getting into this.
have been looking at these-
Split Leather Strop, magnetic strop, magnetic stropping pad
Rock Hard Felt Pad 11"x 3"
Horse Leather Magnetic Pad 11" x 3"