So here i was thinking i had been a real innovative smart arse. I had grabbed an old seat belt and made a strop with it over the weekend (actually i made 4 ).

I was going to post about it today but a quick search reveled it has already been done.....several time so im not an innovative smart arse

I do however have one question. With the absence of any more Cro Ox (ordered more now) i was keen to give it a try out. Rummaging about in my box of bits i came across some red coloured dremel polishing compound and proceeded to load up the least pretty of the strops (the first one i made) and to my surprise it seemed to work quite well !

I can't find much info on this polishing compound and the dremel site is next to useless. From what i can gather so far its some kind of jewelers rouge, is this iron oxide ? and does anyone have any idea where this stuff fits in, in terms of grit size ?

As always any info would be greatly appreciated