Thread: A 1000 grit revelation for me...

So I had been meaning to try something stupid for awhile and finally took the opportunity to go for it tonight...
I was doing some honing and decided to try shaving off some of my 1k hones...
The razor was Gugi's Frank Hess X Singing hollow...
I did a quick 10 lap bevel set on a Shapton 500, great stone BTW just got it in...
I took the razor to a Shapton 1k and did 20 mixed laps and had the edge popping arm hair nicely... at that time I rinsed the stone and did 10 super light X strokes and stopped...

Using the absolute worst prep and terrible made on the face William's lather, I tried a few strokes... No stropping at all, straight off the stone... Hmm a little grabby, but with some carefully strokes I got a decent shave... Not the closest by any means, but heck a passable, comfortable, shave... I did almost everything wrong I could, except the confidence in the shaving strokes themselves...

So I learned something tonight, something we say a lot of times but now I will totally believe it...The experience of the person doing the shaving is way more important then the edge itself...
Some thing else occurred to me, I have always said you are pretty much done "sharpening" when you come off the 4k stones, I really believe that now... I am not so sure how much "sharper" the edge is going to get smoother yes, sharper I am not so sure... I am definitely going to have to do some more experimenting at much lower grits... Not to worry Gugi I won't do it with yer razor ...

Try it for yerself see what you find out...