Thread: I want to know what strop will be best for what I'm using

If you are going to purchase a nice new strop, I would not apply my diamond spray to my main strop. As others have suggested purchase a separate piece of material for your diamond spray stropping. Hobby Lobby has all types of craft materials suitable for diamond spray stropping.

Still not sure what you are looking for?

How are your edges now?

.25 Diamond is a good maintenance paste, but Diamonds can be harsh, most strop on Chromium Oxide after for comfort.

You can and some of us have, stropped on Chromium Oxide daily, with no damage and a very nice, keen edge.

Originally Posted by Haroldg48

In my opinion, you're chewing up the edge with all the paste stropping. By using pastes every time you strop, you are constantly "sharpening", BUT creating a fragile edge that won't hold up, again IMO. Retire the pastes and pasted strop surfaces for a while and get a quality strop (SRD or elsewhere) that you keep untreated and use for every shave.

This explains why my edges aren't retained for a very long time, it was recently my birthday and I asked for $20 per family member so I have a good bit of money to buy my strop... Thanks for all the helpful info I k ow what direction I'm going

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Still not sure what you are looking for?

How are your edges now?

.25 Diamond is a good maintenance paste, but Diamonds can be harsh, most strop on Chromium Oxide after for comfort.

You can and some of us have, stropped on Chromium Oxide daily, with no damage and a very nice, keen edge.

I got what I'm looking for now, it sounds like I'll be purchasing some chromium oxide and a very good strop and leaving the pastes for when I am re-honing then using chromium oxide then stropping on leather then on

Originally Posted by feltspanky

If you are going to purchase a nice new strop, I would not apply my diamond spray to my main strop. As others have suggested purchase a separate piece of material for your diamond spray stropping. Hobby Lobby has all types of craft materials suitable for diamond spray stropping.

Thanks! Hobby lobby is a gpwonderful suggestion for my paste substrates

Try a 3 inch piece of foam core, the one from a dollar store with a rough, construction paper finish works best.

Do buy, razor quality Chrome Oxide, Hand America, SRD, or Kremer Pigments. Do not use Hardware or Woodworking store “Green Rouge” they contain other abrasive that will leave a chippy, un-shavable edge and it is not that much cheaper than quality Chrome Oxide, you don’t need much.

I'm six months into straight razor shaving. Do your homework. Watch all the youtube vids you can. I have 2 Dovo, 2 Thiers issard, and a Gold Dollar 208. I first Bought all my stones and the gd. I started practicing honing, bevel setting, etc.grind the snot out of your gd. You'll figure it out. Then move on to expensive razors. Also, get a good strop. You'll spend 60-70+. Use your cheap strop for the crox, pastes. Btw, my gd still remains my sharpest razor.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Try a 3 inch piece of foam core, the one from a dollar store with a rough, construction paper finish works best.

Do buy, razor quality Chrome Oxide, Hand America, SRD, or Kremer Pigments. Do not use Hardware or Woodworking store “Green Rouge” they contain other abrasive that will leave a chippy, un-shavable edge and it is not that much cheaper than quality Chrome Oxide, you don’t need much.

Thanks! Good idea on the foam core, you know I almost bought some green rouge at the hardware store today.. Good thing I didn't lol

Originally Posted by Longhaultanker

I'm six months into straight razor shaving. Do your homework. Watch all the youtube vids you can. I have 2 Dovo, 2 Thiers issard, and a Gold Dollar 208. I first Bought all my stones and the gd. I started practicing honing, bevel setting, etc.grind the snot out of your gd. You'll figure it out. Then move on to expensive razors. Also, get a good strop. You'll spend 60-70+. Use your cheap strop for the crox, pastes. Btw, my gd still remains my sharpest razor.

That's exactly what I'm doing right now, practicing on my GD, I do it almost daily p, ended up buying on of the non shave ready GD's with the stabilizer still on it ground it down with a Dremel and now honing her.., it's fun to see what I'm capable of doing now