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Thanks for that in advance Kevin. I have a ready-made strop due from Axminster tomorrow probably but it comes with a white compound which hopefully applies a bit easier tha yours obviously has. Like you I’ve boned up on strops and compounds and gave up as the complexities became too much.
One manufacturer’s colour coding is different than the next, the same with supposed grit sizes, what is actually contained in the compounds, then of course the old chestnut as which country’s grit sizes were referred to as so many differ to each other, etc.. I have even seen some references that said folk have even honed with no compound, just using the suede side of the leather. Which makes sense to me, remembering days of yon when most men shaved with a cuthroat razor and used a plain strop or belt.
If I start to get problems with mine then I’ll just use bare suede/leather and it will be what it is. Either way I won’t get into a strop over it. Sorry Kev, my silly sense of humour.