Thread: Removing Paste....Reapplying Paste.

I currently have a two sided strop that I am not using. One side is pasted with green paste, however, since I purchased it on the classifieds, I am not sure if it is Dovo Green or Crox? I realize that these are two very different substances.

What is the safest way to go about completely removing the green paste to reapply Crox? I could avoid any issues and just paste a piece of balsa, but I do not want the second side on this strop to go to waste.

There is no way no completely remove the paste. It embeds itself into the material. You can get most of it out. I know this has come out before and materials have been discussed. I think someone once mentioned gojo or similar. It also depends are we talking leather of linen. If its linen you can really go to town on it with scrub brushes and chemicals even high pressure steam and get just about all of it out. With leather your more limited.

Usually a leather pasted strop is considered a permanent thing. If your repasting with a lower grit you can probably get away with it but not higher.

Pm the seller, I'm sure he'd know.

If hes not around, just try it on a razor thats starting to get dull. You should be able to tell which one it is pretty easily.

Originally Posted by Fbones24

I currently have a two sided strop that I am not using. One side is pasted with green paste, however, since I purchased it on the classifieds, I am not sure if it is Dovo Green or Crox? I realize that these are two very different substances.

What is the safest way to go about completely removing the green paste to reapply Crox? I could avoid any issues and just paste a piece of balsa, but I do not want the second side on this strop to go to waste.

There is no way to completely remove any paste.

You can use a cheep VDH boar brush and saddle soap
alternating with an inexpensive shave soap like
Williams and scrub most of it off.

You can rub it with coarse paper like a brown paper grocery bag
or even newsprint. Rub it to the point that no more green
comes off then apply a small amount of the paste of choice. Do this
multiple times, once a month and it will begin to act a lot like the
paste of choice. The large grains will get pushed down into the
leather and with only their nose sticking up will act a lot
finer than they are.

Green stuff is going to be Chrome Oxide. There are multiple
grades... start with the finest you can find first...
Stealing from another SRP post.http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...html#post24574
"From the Dovo Paste
page on the Classic Shaving website...

"Green Sharpening Paste is the coarsest with a particle size
averaging 6 microns and should be used on a very dull edge."

So yes cleaning is a good thing.