Thread: How I finish with (insert finisher here)

Naniwa SS 12k - Finish with clear water using 3 heel forward x 3 "X" strokes very slow until the hone goes to just damp...

Shapton GS 30k - Finish with clear water with a 3 forward, 2 spine leading, 1 forward

Escher/Thuringen - About 20 pigtail passes with light slurry dilute to clear water with very slow X strokes and heel forward strokes

Nakayama Midori (very hard) - 20 pigtail strokes with a light slurry until the slurry breaks down and feels like talc, then I slowly do heel forward and X strokes until dry..

Select Grade Coticule - mostly on Sheffield Steel, 20 pigtails with light slurry and finish out to clear water

PHIG - mostly on Swedes, 20 pigtails with light slurry and finish out slowly to clear water using at least 20 clear water feather light strokes at the end..

CF - Still working on what I like best with this one... Right now I am playing with a water, slurry, and soap finish..

Arkansas - about 80-100 feather light slow X strokes on Honing oil

Long Swaty - About 15 lathered X strokes

Norton 8k - Finish to clear water stop and rinse stone wipe of excess water and do feather light heel forward and X strokes very slow until damp...


All my finishers are used only after the razor is already "Shaving Sharp", this is the most important part in my eyes, going to the Finish early I personally think is most people's problem...