Pastes and their grits

[Sixshooter]

Good morning Mr. Watson. Ellisdee is asking about pastes, but since I
have never really been involved with them, I was wondering if you new
the grits and grit colors for him. Matt may be able to shed some light
on them as well.

[C Watson]

Sorry, I won't be much help.  I do use a four sided pasted strop - but it was prepasted when I bought it.  The four sides are as follows: 1) slate or some other soft stone, 2) Red paste, 3) Black paste, 4) natural leather.

I've had the strop for 3 maybe 4 years and I use it about once a month or less for my two rotation blades and I don't think it's ready for another application yet as it's working fine.

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-Clyde
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[Ellis Dee]

tada I'm here too :D
Jim many thanks for asking around for me, Clyde thanks for the info
dovo do a paste set with red and black I'm assuming is for your very
thing. Could you tell me what the strop is made from on the pasted
sides??

[C Watson]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Ellis Dee <ellisd...@gmail.com> wrote:

tada I'm here too :D
Jim many thanks for asking around for me, Clyde thanks for the info
dovo do a paste set with red and black I'm assuming is for your very
thing. Could you tell me what the strop is made from on the pasted
sides??

The pasted sides are leather.  here is a link to the strop I have.  I have not bought from this seller, so this is not a referral for this seller.  I bought the strop from a lister on SRP that used to have an online store.

http://premiumknives.com/ShopSite/Jemico_Solingen_J45_Strop.html

The price at that store seems about normal for US pricing, however sometimes you can find them from German ebay sellers for about a third of the price (and that includes shipping)

I highly recommend this strop.  It's great to use when normal stropping does not bring your razor back to keen.  By using this strop I only hone my rotation razors once, maybe twice a year.

More often I see the Jemico two sided strop with green paste which is also a good choice, I've had that in the past too.  However I sold it when I got the four sided strop as I feel it does a more thorough job as it has stone and two types of paste and natural leather where the two sided has one type of paste and natural leather.

[Sixshooter]

And so you are! LOL I'm working on your razors as I speak, Honing them
puppies up.

On Feb 26, 3:34 pm, Ellis Dee <ellisdee....@gmail.com> wrote:
> C Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Sixshooter <jhc...@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> > > Good morning Mr. Watson. Ellisdee is asking about pastes, but since I
> > > have never really been involved with them, I was wondering if you new
> > > the grits and grit colors for him. Matt may be able to shed some light
> > > on them as well.
>
> > Sorry, I won't be much help.  I do use a four sided pasted strop - but it
> > was prepasted when I bought it.  The four sides are as follows: 1) slate or
> > some other soft stone, 2) Red paste, 3) Black paste, 4) natural leather.
>
> > I've had the strop for 3 maybe 4 years and I use it about once a month or
> > less for my two rotation blades and I don't think it's ready for another
> > application yet as it's working fine.
>
> > --
> > -Clyde
> > _,,,\|/,--------------------------------------------------

> > (_   /|\ Clyde Watson, docwa...@gmail.com

[Ellis Dee]

:D thanks again for the help guys