Thread: Poly or cotton

Should you put your chromium oxide on poly webbing or cotton strop?

Originally Posted by Cattleman02

Should you put your chromium oxide on poly webbing or cotton strop?

Mine is on balsa.

I guess the real question is what CrOx are you using, there is very little of the good stuff out there

Definitely want to make sure you have good crox. I like using cotton as my substrate for paste

I have both and they both do the job just fine. Personally I prefer cotton canvas for pasting but that is more a preference of the way it feels while stropping than with the way it works. I think that's a little subjective anyway.

I don't even bother with it. If it's dulling...hone it. Your going to have to anyhow. What's 20 minutes or less to do a touch up.

If you get your honing right there is no need for it.

I don't really use it to refresh or rarely, at least not these days. Mainly I use it while honing to polish between stones.
To refresh I usually use flax linen or, moreso recently, hemp fiber webbing.