Quote Originally Posted by adjustme69 View Post
I think the point to remember when using either the green paste or diamond pastes is that the sharpness really comes from the hone and the glide or smoothness is much improved with the pastes depending on the razor.

Lynn
Exactly, while pastes are an easy way for a beginner to get started and have a near 100% suces rate they do not replace a hone, especially for creating that initial sharp edge. Once created on the hone one can go right to a hanging strop or further refine the edge with either pastes applied to a variety of tools of on finer hones like barber hones, Belgians, Eschers and Thuringens.

There is no single tool that will do everything as Lynn's DVD points out. Each razor, each user has different succes rates with each tool. Eventually it would be nice to learn to use and own one of each....Norton, finishing hone (Belgian or Thuringen) and some type of pasted paddle type strop to get the best out of each razor. A hone (Norton, etc...) is probably the only one you can get around not owning but you will still need it's services as supplied by one of the honemeisters here by sending off your razor a few times a year.

Tony