Thread: Your Preference - Pasted Linen/felt, etc. or Leather or Balsa

Originally Posted by Disburden

I have never met a rock honed razor that couldn't be improved by pastes.

That being said I really like chromium, iron or cerium oxide on linen hanging strops.

Never used a high grit Nakayama?

I use Chromium Oxide paste on the back side of my SRD Premium Fabric strop and it works great. However, I've been considering getting a Modular Paddle Strop to try out a bunch of combos like sprays with felt.

So, better late to the party than not at all, right? Today I picked up a linen shirt and double glass pane picture frame at the thrift store for 3 bucks. I plan to cut and attach the linen to the two glass panes, and attach each of those to wood bases and put a .5 and .25 on and - viola! a homemade bench pasted strop setup. Now if only I could find quality diamond paste at the thrift store...

Seriously though, anyone ever tried a setup like this? Am I going about it all wrong?

I thought about felt instead, thoughts?

Hey guys, any experience with larry's balsa wood strop croox and ironox? work for a new stropper?
thanks

Originally Posted by noobs

Hey guys, any experience with larry's balsa wood strop croox and ironox? work for a new stropper?
thanks

Larry's balsa works well. I used it for awhile before moving to using leather for paste.

On balsa both crox and feox are fairly fast cutters so very low lap counts are used.

Also both can leave a bit of a harsh edge. This can be countered most times by good stropping on untreated linen and leather.

Chrome oxide on one side and iron oxide on the other - hanging linen strop.

Originally Posted by WW243

Have you tried this system with and without using a razor?

The without a razor mode does produce results. I have thought hard many a time about buying 8-12 more types of strops/materials, 5 or so carats worth of diamonds in various sizes, and a small crate filled with all the strop goop but have resisted and still get remarkably good shaves off of my leather!

The next experiment will be to think about buying more razors without actually pulling the trigger...