[gssixgun]

Originally Posted by CloseShave

I got a bar of chromium oxide in bar form. Instead of reading this sticky, I ran the bar over the back of one of my hanging strops. It spread unevenly. It appears I should shave the bar into a bowl and add water to get a more even spread. Am I correct?

I just did this the other day and it works very easily.... Use whatever strop dressing yer going to use (I used neets foot) Take a very fine cheese grater and shave some of the bar into a small glass bowl filled with a small amount of the dressing, mix with finger and apply as Josh showed above works perfectly, and very easy... I stored the left over in a small AS sample bottle for future use, should be about 20 years before I need to do it again

PS: I said glass bowl for a good reason, some idiot I know well used the wife's Tupperware and left green Cr impregnated into the plastic!!!!!

[CloseShave]

Thanks gssixgun for the confirmation. What's the best way to deal with CO that streaked on the strop? Will it liquify on the strop with application of water or oil?

[johnny allred]

Hello,This is my 2 cents worth clean your strop with your shaving soap it works on mine. I had to much neatfoot oil, a barber friend told me to just lather it up let soak for a few minutes then wipe off.

God Bless

[netsurfr]

Nice series. Thanks for taking the time to post this. Based on this, I think I may have overpasted my diamond pasted paddle strops. Think I may consider cleaning them off and starting from scratch with lighter pasting.

[Fraserazor]

Hi, thanks what a great post! very informative!

Cheers Mark

[brianmueller007]

I know this is a dumb question, but I am a newbie on here and I have to know what a "bump" means? I know this is off topic, but this is the last place I saw it used. I am assuming this is just like giving a thumbs up to someone?