Dear Fellow Members-Just received a beautiful canvas/bridle leather strop from Tony Miller at The Well Shaved Gentleman that was created using some very nice scrap he had. Since the bridle leather has a prefabricated bow on the smooth leather side, I was advised to apply the Chromium Oxide there.
I bought the .5 micron Chromium Oxide paste from Straight Razor Designs and also bought a block of Formax Chromium Oxide paste from another vendor. Is there a certain way to uniformly apply either of these? I understand that more is not necessarily better when it comes to applying CROX on a strop. I also understand that when the strop becomes excessively dirty that one must wipe it dry?Can some type of solvent be used on the towel to aid cleaning or would this affect the strop? FWIW, I do have a Balsa pasted strop, but it uses a water based CROX paste and can be cleaned with 320-400 wet/dry sandpaper on a sanding block and the new CROX paste can be painted on. Have already done this once and it looks good.
Again, thank you for any detailed responses-GREAT forum!