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rbscebu
Girls call me Makaluod
Once you have finished honing on a solid flat honing medium and your SR is shaving comfortably, then and only then do you progress to diamond pasted balsa strops. The pasted balsa does not make a poor edge better, it only refines an already good shave-ready edge.I hope I can bother you one more time. I was trying to filter through some of the info...regarding the diamond paste, do you progress from .25, then to 0.1? Or do you jump directly to 0.1 from your stones and/or CROx?
You can go from a solid whetstone medium to CROx also on a solid flat substrate but you will be wasting your time. There is no need for CROx if using diamond pasted balsa strops.
You will need at least three diamond pasted balsa strops; 0.5μm, 0.25μm and 0.1μm. I also have a fourth, a second 0.1μm balsa strop, that I use for edge maintenance after each shave. This fourth is not really needed but I like it that way.
Initially, after each shave, put the blade through a full pasted balsa strop progression (0.5, 0.25, 0.1 and 0.1 hanging). Once you find that there is no further edge improvement, you can drop back to 0.1μm hanging balsa stropping only after each shave.