Thread: My razor is too sharp???? I like a duller edge??

Originally Posted by Bart

I don't care. I own such a machine. CrO on a piece of leather remains Cro on a piece of leather, whether that piece of leather rubs against the edge, or whether you rub the edge against the leather.

The bottom line remains that the edge width is smaller.
The bottom line also is, that at Chosera 5K level, I can't pass a decent HHT, while the exactly same hair pops at the mere touch with the Chosera 10K edge. And falls silently once that edge is stropped. A stropped 5K edge pops hairs if I pull them a bit.

Some call it a parlor trick, but it a hair that we are severing, right?
Or is it a hair that we are splitting?

Whether the difference in performance is due to edge width, or to decreased friction, I believe am going to read Charlie's post one last time, and go to bed...

I think the key difference is that he's using a different honing technique on the tormek, lifting the edge up and changing the honing angle. He doesn't get this sort of result using the flatbed strop where he doesn't change the honing angle.

As for why your 5k chosera edges won't pop hair I really haven't a clue. I've seen the same thing by the way, edges pop at 1k then stop in the intermediate grits then start popping again at the 12-15k range. I don't know why. Verhoeven mentions that the 200 and 600 grit edges he did cut hair just fine, though he doesn't say anything about popping.

He does speculate that the burrs may be very sharp from the side, and that this may be responsible for sawing-type cutting efficiency. Maybe our hands vibrate just enough when we're holding the razor that the hair sees enough of a sawing motion that the sharp edges of the burrs pop the hair? At intermediate grits the burrs aren't big enough to pop the hair in one swipe, but the edge isn't sharp enough to pop by itself.