![]() I think many people use the pastes, sprays or whatever at the end of their normal honing progression to bump the edge up to the next level, not as a way to avoiding future honing.Īs Legion has shown above - using Chromox on leather is very much ok. My honing progression now days is synthetic stones then finish on a Jnat then strop off clean leather only, thats what my face likes best. I tried both again off a balsa strop and my face still hated the diamond, but the crox and iron oxide were closer to a natural stone finish. I have played with diamond sprays and crox off a hanging strop and my face hated the edge, way too keen for me. Im not sure about overcooking on edge on crox or paste off a balsa strop, but I believe the same problem exists, especially if you are new to shaving and stropping. You can easily overdevelop an edge (overcooked) using diamond spray and it becomes fragile and starts to crumble when you shave and feels truly awful, after that you have to take it to the hone to correct the problem. You will need to have the razor honed or hone it yourself at some point. Like Shawn said, no at least not on a hanging strop.lapped balsa block aka a balsa strop.maybe, but I would be doubtful. ![]() Visit the honing sub-forum and look around theres lots of different ideas about maintaining an edge, films, stones or sending it out to a pro. Cutlery related sites have the pastes and sprays or Amazon. Picking up a separate strop just for the pastes and sprays is also not a bad idea. Many folks use lapped balsa strops to great effect, with sprays and pastes or powders. You'll really have to play around with it to see what your face likes, how many laps etc. 1 or Cubic Boron Nitrite in the same increments. 1 micron on a daily or weekly basis to keep the edge sharp. Crox isnt used on a daily basis only when the edge starts to tug a bit, some folks do use. 5 microns, after that would be Iron Oxide at. That means rinsing the blade after using the pasted fabric, maybe palm strop it a bit then rinse again, dry it then go to the clean leather to finish. You want to avoid contaminating the clean leather part of the strop you use last to finish the edge on. I hope, my explanation is understandable.Normally the pastes go on the fabric component of the strop and very very, very, sparingly. A razor blade can be too sharp and can be too dull. Because the epidermis consist of dead cells, it is not a problem but if the blade gets too sharp, it peels too much off your epidermis and your skin gets a major problem. If you sharpen the blade more, the lubrication of your shaving foam cannot protect your skin enough and the blade begins to grind off the upper layer of your skin, named epidermis. ![]() If you sharpen the blade some more, you will reach a point where the blade gets the grip and cuts the hair with minimal force and you will feel a smooth shaving experience. But then you will feel some pulling and tugging because the blade is sharp enough to get this grip but it isn't sharp enough for a proper cut without too much force. That is a minimal sharpness to shave hair. ![]() And only if a blade is sharp enough, it can grip between those scales and gets enough hold to cut through the hair. And those scales have the direction from the tip to the root of the hair. It is because a human hair has some kind of scales, like the skin of a fish. You might be astonished but the hair test will not work anymore. Do you know why a sharp straight razor is able to cut a hair in a few millimeters distance? Just reverse the hair to its opposite and hold it at the tip and try once more. Ok, let me explain this a little bit furter. And because you don't have any kind of guards at a straight razor, you might not be satisfied if the blade is too sharp because it will peel off too much of your epidermis and the result will be some kind of razor burn or bleeding spots. If you have a very agressive DE razor and a very sharp blade, you might not be satisfied with the result. You find different grades of sharpness and that has a good reason. Just have a look at different razor blades from different manufacturers. But there is something like an optimal sharpness too. Click to expand.Almost any person here knows that a razor can be too dull.
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