Thread: CBN On Linen

It is great stuff, I no longer need to hone the razors in my rotation.

I'm finding what I'm doing these days is either a few swipes on CBN every other shave to keep it there, or allow it to slip slightly & see how long I can keep it going by just regular stropping. I'm avoiding doing a lot of linen stropping w/ these (maybe 15 max before shaving only) as I find it degrades the sharpness slightly. Still shaves great after lots of linen ( I'd put it sharp Jnat level), but not what it can be is all. Usually off the 0.25 diamond slurry, I palm strop 30 or so times to remove the false edge, do 15 swipes on the CBN & palm strop again. Nothing else. I don't even use a regular strop until after 1 shave. Still having fun experimenting w/ this stuff!

I found out the hard synthetic craft felt I was using was actually degrading the edges--I suspected I wasn't getting 100% out of this stuff, so I sprayed the backside of my TM linen (the front side is still clean). I took a razor that was pulling a bit & did a total of maybe 25 strokes over the course of a shave. It ended up being just about my smoothest, sharpest edge to date. This stuff is incredible, but the cheap felt it turns out did not work at all. Lesson learned!

Try some craft foam, thinner is better. Let dry and mist with distilled H20. Shave off the edge, no leather.

Please excuse my complete out of the loopness, how does one finish a strop with a 325Gt DMT??
Have I been missing something all these years?? Hope not.

Thank's for you patients, tinkersd

Originally Posted by tinkersd

Please excuse my complete out of the loopness, how does one finish a strop with a 325Gt DMT??
Have I been missing something all these years?? Hope not.

Thank's for you patients, tinkersd

Use it as you would sandpaper on a sanding block.

It will not leave any grit on or in the leather like sandpaper might. Important when the strop will be used with micro pasts like diamond and CBN sprays, or for that matter when you will strop a razor with the leather.

I believe many of the errant deep stria we see on some of the Photos under magnification it is a result of unwanted grit on the strop.

A DMT treated leather leave a very nice finish for just stropping in place of linen when using micro pastes like Diamond or CBN sprays and works well to hold paste to the strop. Personally there are better options to paste like Nylon/Poly and foam, cleaner & uniform. Balsa has its own grit already imbedded and deforms way too easily. If you want to paste wood, 5 gallon paint stir stick from your local hardware store… good price too.