Thread: Crocus finish or Satin?

Very interesting read, thanks for the addition.
Some questions. What kind of emery do you use on your wheels and what is the green rouge - never heard that? Sounds like a green and red paste in one ...
In the razor cutlery we use either green paste, means chromium oxide for mirror polish, or red powder. The red powder or paste is based on iron oxide and gives a much better mirror polish. It isn't used quite offen these days because the red powder lays down everywhere in the workshop while polishing. In the older days polishing with red iron oxide was called "fox polishing" because of the red color. The tools and the polishers themselfes were covered in red and looked like a (red) fox. That's why the red polishing went out of fashion already in the 1930th/1940ths, when the green paste enters the market.
But with some experience you can clearly see on old razors if they are green or red polished. Also red polished surfaces are more stable. They don't get scratched so easily like green polished surfaces.
I also like to use tripel as a (pre-) polishing powder/paste.

Regards Peter