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This compound of Chromium Oxide is of high quality and provides an excellent way to put that finishing touch on your straight razor! I find that it works best to apply a coat to the strop and make approximately 30-40 strokes in each direct. If more sharpness is required, reapply the compound and make approximately 10-12 strokes in each direction; and, recheck. The razor should be extremely shave ready!!! Yours truly, Tim Malone
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I took 3 emptied bullets and polished them in different ways. The were all cleaned with Ivory bar soap and Ajax Ultra soft soap before and after polishing. This was done to ensure that I polished only clean bullets and I needed to use 2 soaps so that I used a detergent and one that was not a detergent. The first picture is of one bullet that was cleaned with the house hold cleaner Soft-Scrub. It still has a bunch of black blotches on it. The second was cleaned with this polishing compound. I only have an after picture of that bullet, sorry. The last, and brightest one, was cleaned with some Tarn-X, which it is not labeled for or against brass, so you should get better results with a different professional polish. However the copper came out looking perfect. It should be noted that the Tarn-X has a lot of trouble getting into crevasses. Thus, there are still spots where this bullet is black; most noticeably by the rim where the copper meets the brass. Overall, I'm disappointed with this polishing compound. It's nice enough, but just the wrong stuff to be polishing with. It's really average. On the sharpening front, this stuff promises "a keen edge on straight razors," among other, similar claims. I don't have a razor, but how about an axe? It's my first time using compound when sharpening, so don't take this as gospel either way. But the results were almost identical with and without using compound on the blade. I used a rotary bit for sharpening and then a clean cloth to remove any leftover burrs. In the 2 pictures you can see some close ups of the effects of dropping the axe blade from a height of about 12 inches (I used a nearby box instead of a ruler to go by), onto a piece of pine about 1/2 inch thick. So, again, I'm just not impressed with this as a sharpening compound. If you choose to buy it, maybe you'll get better results in both use cases. I can only say that it's "good enough", nothing more. PS: I know, the pictures aren't all perfect, but taken at a size of 4K each they should be large enough.Read full review
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I have no reason not to give this 5 Stars except for I've never used this type of compound before so I have nothing to compare and contrast with. I will say that the product worked very well and I have no complaints. I would have no problem recommending this product to someone else and I intend on purchasing it again in the future.
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works just fine - if you haven't tried polishing compounds on a leather paddle to buff the edge of your knifes after stoning you will notice the difference in making a blade you thought was sharp as you could get so much better - because unlike bare leather it's cutting action does more than just remove the feather left by stoning the smaller size of the blocks is very convenient & I found them excellent value
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not really sure about the magic behind this chocolate looking Square but it did help me make my knife hairsplitting sharp
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