I've just got a question really quickly about stropping pastes. I've got a balsa strop that I got from Larry because he had already stopped selling the "Rich Man's" strop kit. It came with green chromium oxide and red iron oxide. I used those compounds on the balsa strop after I got my razors back to see if I could use that to get them up to shave ready standards. I like those compounds for touch ups as it seems to work quite nicely.

However, I was wondering if using something like white jewelers rouge would benefit the paste stropping process. I've used white rouge before on leather working tools to great success (you're supposed to strop swivel knives and such on white rouge prior to using them on leather). I think I even have a chunk of it laying around here somewhere. I used to use it as well during my knife sharpening process to get a good edge on my knives by stropping them. I get that sharpening knives and tools is alot different than sharpening razors, but would white rouge have any benefits in the process of sharpening blades?

I did do a search on this but never found any real definitive answers so I figured I would ask again.