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### Balsa
Because balsa wood is rigid and nearly incompressible, stropping on balsa produces minimal convexity. Micro convexity is still achieved.
### Nanocloth
Nanocloth is a soft, flexible material mounted on a hard, flat glass substrate. It's a synthetic polishing cloth sold by Ken Schwartz.
Nanocloth is a soft, flexible material mounted on a hard, flat glass substrate. It's a synthetic polishing cloth sold by Ken Schwartz. It appears to achieve slightly more micro convexity than the balsa substrate.
## Latigo (Bovine) Leather
## Compound material
### Chromium Oxide
Chromium Oxide (green, waxy substance) is probably the most common stropping compound. While it's moderately effective, there are better options, and it's generally recommended that if you strop a blade on a chromium oxide loaded strop, you follow it up with fine abrasive or a clean leather strop.
## Mono-diamond
Mono crystalline diamond stropping compound comes in a wide variety of grit sizes, ranging from 0.1 micron, all the way up past 20 micron.
Mono crystalline diamond stropping compound comes in a wide variety of grit sizes, ranging from 0.1 micron, all the way up past 20 micron.