Thread: Sequence on SRD Modular Paddle

Originally Posted by kaiyen

are you all doing all of these steps every time you shave...? (newbie, in case you can't tell)

no no no, just after honing as a futher polish or just when razor starts to pull a tadge.

just use normal strop for daily shave

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

If I was maintaining a razor on the paddle, rather than on a hanging strop, I would use the unpasted fabric/felt followed by the leather just as I do with my hanging strop. If I wanted to add sharpness or smoothness to a shave ready razor I would use a pasted surface but that wouldn't be used too often. Really want to have it when I need it though.

+1 on that. I just use untreated felt/leater for everyday stropping, and diamond spray for touch ups or at the end of a honing sequence. Diamond spray doesn't get used very often.

I also have the padle strop.


Daily:

1. Untreated Felt
2. Bridle Leather
3. Premium I Leather

Touch Up:

1. Diamond Sprayed Felt (wipe blade)
2. CrOx - on a home made balsa strop (wipe blade)
3. Untreated Felt
4. Bridle Leather
5. Premium I Leather

Daily stropping procedure

1)scrub leather
2)untreated felt
3)bridle leather
4)premium 1 as my finisher.. this combination seems to work best for me

Originally Posted by Jsteele

Daily stropping procedure

1)scrub leather
2)untreated felt
3)bridle leather
4)premium 1 as my finisher.. this combination seems to work best for me

As a piece of advice, this is overkill. Stropping should take no longer than a minute.

2 grades max, either coarse and fine leather, or felt/linen and leather. Honestly, I know there has been a recent movement towards stropping progressions which was previously discussed, but this is for touch ups, not routine use.

Just trying to help