Thread: Mom bought me this "buffing compound", supposedly for a strop, never heard of this

Somewhat of a newbie to straight razor shaving, my mom bought me this as a Christmas gift:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...JMKG7FX7EKPE7T

I've never heard of such a thing, is this stuff appropriate for stropping a straight razor? What exactly do I do with it? Rub it into the strop before stropping?

I would be led to believe that it's a polishing compound of some kind and perhaps CrOx and no you don't need it. Once you 'paste a strop' it's pasted for live/well as far as I'm concerned.

Mom meant well. But you need to stick to the basics and leave as many variables out of the equation for now.

Later on you might be able to use it so hang onto it/as it won't rot.

ps: I think you meant 'stropping' and not honing

A recent thread amoung many others that is similar in topic.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...ome-oxide.html

CROX is green. Not all green things are CROX. Then there are different grades of CROX.

I am sure it is good for something... Razors, knives, or a boat anchor....

The reviews seem promising, some are using it on straight razors. If you have more than one SR or one that needs a touch up and some extra leather, give it a few passes and see what happens

Originally Posted by Flaric

Somewhat of a newbie to straight razor shaving, my mom bought me this as a Christmas gift:

Amazon.com: Woodstock D2902 1-Pound Extra Fine Buffing Compound, Green: Home Improvement

I've never heard of such a thing, is this stuff appropriate for stropping a straight razor? What exactly do I do with it? Rub it into the strop before stropping?

That stuff is great for sharpening wood working tools for sure. It may not be good for a pasted strop for touch up. It say it is intended for buffing, I'd say keep it but don't use t on your strop. If you want to experiment with putting some on a shammy and use it for cleaning blades, it is likely the cats pajamas for that.

One more thing to piggy back on the other replies is if you do go the pasted strop route whether now or in the future is that it is used sparingly, like 10 laps to start and go from there. It won't make a dull blade sharp but it will make a once shave ready blade that is just starting to tug a little back to shave ready. I use SRD's spray crox because it is well graded. I use a pasted strop after my finisher to get a little more keen of an edge and then for light tune ups later on down the road. Over use of a pasted strop can lead to harsh edges and one slip up like taking the spine off the strop with edge in contact with it will erase any shave ready edge instantly.

Yeah...I bought that stuff too...then I saw the following thread:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...-bars-not.html

Um, guessing it's probably not ideal for our razors. Probably want to get some of the guaranteed pure stuff. Doh.

Originally Posted by Flaric

Somewhat of a newbie to straight razor shaving, my mom bought me this as a Christmas gift:

Amazon.com: Woodstock D2902 1-Pound Extra Fine Buffing Compound, Green: Home Improvement

I've never heard of such a thing, is this stuff appropriate for stropping a straight razor? What exactly do I do with it? Rub it into the strop before stropping?

apparently so. It's on an old chicago strop on the linen, it's large brick and hard I use it for chisels mostly- but have used it on a couple kamisori and it worked fine- pasting is the toughest part: heat.

Stretch and staple an old linen shirt over a board and paste and strop there before using your razor strop- I would agree that it likely has more aggressive particles in it. It's good stuff though.

Probably not pure Chrome Oxide, for about the same price you can buy pure Razor Quality Chrome Oxide from SRD.

If you want to test it, paste a 12in piece of cardboard. Worst thing that could happen is you will have to touch up you razor to remove the chippy aggressive edge.

As said if you paste your strop, you will never get it all out of the leather.

Chances are it has other abrasives in it for polishing, otherwise they would say it was pure Chrome Oxide, notice they don’t even call it Chrome Oxide, Green buffing compound…