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11-12-2006, 06:04 PM #1Member
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Pastes and what to use them on.
I understand that alot of people use balsa wood faced paddle strops for diamond pastes, can the dovo red, green etc pastes be used on a balsa wood faced paddle strop or does it have to be a leather faced???
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11-16-2006, 09:23 PM #2Member
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Balsa wood works for everything although the cutting will be slower than on leather.
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11-17-2006, 09:01 AM #3Member
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Ok
Thanks for that.
Tom
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11-17-2006, 10:27 AM #4Member
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Your welcome. Sorry it took so long for someone to reply. Keep in mind that slower is not bad, or good. Just slower.
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11-17-2006, 03:24 PM #5Electric Razor Aficionado
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I'll second that. My favorite paddle right now is persimmon with 1.3 micron boron carbide paste on it. I prefer the persimmon because it's harder than balsa but still porous enough to hold the paste. It's quite a bit slower than my 1 micron diamond-on-leather paddle, but stropping is pretty quick so it doesn't really matter much. And it produces a very keen, very smooth edge that feels a lot nicer than the finer-grit diamond.
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