[htmitten]

Has anyone used stropping compounds other than diamond or chrome oxide? Specificly. Cerium Oxide,
Linde, orTin Oxide for example.

[JMS]

Iron Oxide!

[randydance062449]

None of those three, although the Linde is interesting.

[p.z.]

how about aluminum oxide?
alumina hones seem common.. same grit?

[spazola]

Last week I made four bench strops from ½ birch ply with denim glued on one surface. I put chrome oxide, 1.8 boron carbide, rottenstone, and tin oxide on the last one tonight.

So far I have tried the chrome and the rottenstone, after coming of my yellow coticule. The rottenstone and chrome had very similar results. I will try the tin oxide later this week sometime.

I will break into my old telescope making boxes and dig up some cerium oxide and give it a try at a later date.

The linde abrasive seems like it would be a good choice.

I have read several old references to people stropping on bare aluminum. Aluminum forms an oxide very quickly on the surface I wonder how it would work. Have any of you tried it?


Charlie

[Chris L]

Rottenstone and chrome ox having similar results? Interesting. Are there varying grits of rottenstone? I bought a 1 pound box at a Rockler Woodworker store about a year ago and made a slurry with it on top of a Belgian Blue. Really terrible results. Very very gritty feeling.

Interesting idea about stropping on a polished aluminum plate. Very interesting.

Chris L

[spazola]

I think that there are varying grits in the rottenstone. But it breaks down quickly. I rubbed the rottenstone into the denim then used the shop vac to remove the excess. I then used a scrap razor to strop with before I used an actual razor I wanted to polish.

My theory is that the first stropping may have broken the big chunks.

I am just guessing.

Chris, I just reread your post, I think that rottenstone comes in only one grit. I was thinking it might not be uniform in that grit size.

Charlie