Thread: Self-Honing Strop

Originally Posted by Shoki

so crocus is the same as?

It is a very fine form of powdered iron oxide, like jewellers rouge but suitable for polishing iron (the difference is that jewellers rouge is heated to a lower temperature during formation, so it is suitable for soft metals like gold, whereas crocus was heated to a higher temperature, giving a darker powder that was more suited to harder metals like iron).

Regards,
Neil