Thread: Thiers-Issard (TI) paste

I have had it for years and I consider it to be an excellent paste. If used lightly and like a crayon it will spread nice and evenly on a leather strop. Use a rubber glove while applying.

It is not the same as the Dovo white paste.

It is much more tacky than any other pastes I have encountered, especially when use the first time after application. Go slow and light with the first stropping strokes, don't force the razor down the strop.

It imparts a smooth and mild edge. There's less bite with edges finished on this.

All this said, I really don't use pastes to finish my blades and haven't for years but if I needed to in a pinch I would choose this. Hope that helps.

Best Regards,
EL

Originally Posted by elbonator

I have had it for years and I consider it to be an excellent paste. If used lightly and like a crayon it will spread nice and evenly on a leather strop. Use a rubber glove while applying.

It is not the same as the Dovo white paste.

It is much more tacky than any other pastes I have encountered, especially when use the first time after application. Go slow and light with the first stropping strokes, don't force the razor down the strop.

It imparts a smooth and mild edge. There's less bite with edges finished on this.

All this said, I really don't use pastes to finish my blades and haven't for years but if I needed to in a pinch I would choose this. Hope that helps.

Best Regards,
EL

every thing this guy says is very true. I have used it on canvas as said above it goes on canvas so much easier. the paste is nothing like dovo paste. It leaves a smooth sharp nice edge . It can be used as a retouch or even as a finisher after your final hone.

I like this paste I use it to finish and retouch my razors. I have been using it for about 6 months now and it works fine. The paste is equal to a 10K grit stone and was intended by TI to be used at every stropping, but I just use it if I need to refresh my edges or to finish my razors when homing.

I played with the TI paste for a couple of years and found that when it works, it is nice and when it doesn't I usually need to go back to the 4K or 8K and re-hone. I put a very small amount on either my canvas/cotton/linen strop or on the back of leather strops. It blacks up pretty quickly. All in all, about a 50% hit rate with 10-15 very light X strokes.

To me, it is another can do media. There are better and more consistent and there are worse.

Have fun,

Lynn

I agree with those who like it as I also use it and think it does a fine job in finishing or refining an edge. It does apply somewhat in the fashion of bubblegum, but I like how it can polish or touch up an edge once you have it smoothed out on a strop or paddle. I've put it on the back or flesh side of a hanging travel strop and on several paddles I've made for myself. To even it out on leather faced paddles I have resorted to wetting a rag with lighter fluid to even out some of the thicker clumps on a grain leather faced paddle.

It is nominally a coarser paste than Chrome Oxide, but I like the shave from the edge the TI paste helps create. Thumbs up.

wow thanks for all the responses.

guess its that time

Riedog.