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Best source of 0.1 micron diamond paste?

rbscebu said:
I can definitely notice the difference when shaving with a straight razor off 0.5μm, 0.25μm and 0.1μm diamond pastes. Interestingly, my best shaves come off 0.1μm followed by 0.5μm and the worst is 0.25μm. Can't explain why.

I am also very careful not to get any cross contamination between my pasted balsa strops. Don't believe her, size does matter.
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There was discussions a long time ago on SRP I think it was, that many had commented harsh shave experiences from over sharpening (a debatable mystery also) with to many laps on 0.5um chrox
the reason could be the quality of the particle sizes in the base materials causing harshness, unfortunately I have not to experienced it to comment, but also only ever run about 10 laps max on each on a balsa strop, if I use them.
 
I have never experienced an over-sharpening problem with diamond pasted balsa. I have experience discomfort but that was solved with short X strokes on the final 0.1μm hanging balsa in my progression and daily edge maintenance.
 
I’ve ordered the diamond paste from Tech Diamond Tools in the US. Just need to source the acrylic and balsa now. Will work on that this week. :)
 
I was unable to readily source thick acrylic, so I put together a composite substrate. My local craft shop had the balsa and the hardware store had the contact and epoxy adhesives, brush and paint.
 
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