Howdy and good eving to all of you, I"m wondering about a couple of razors that have given me some problems on the 1K. I just got done honning an old Soligen 5/8th straight but it took some bloody dancing moves to get it to were I would even think about shaeve testing if.
On the start of bevel setting on my Norton 1k I could for the not get the edge to pass a not only the hanging hair test but the arm hair test. I tried very firm pressure followed by very light and them after using slurry to just water just using light strokes, maybe 30 or 40 changing up between X-patterns and straight strokes, and using the marker test it always very cleanly wiped off the marker on both sides of the bevel , it did get very sticky on the TPT, but only shaved hair off my arm while actually shcving by going right down to the skin to get the edge to "mow down" the hair. I finally got it as far as I felt I COULD go with it and decided to put a layer of PVC tape on the spine and to the 4K/8K Norton.

I used an agressice Pyramid and then a conservative Pyramid according the chart put forth by Lynn A. and then and ONLY then did the edge feel keen enough to shave test with, still awaiting more beard growth for that test. My question[you know this was comming!] is do many of you have a notion that a decent shaver could hone up this way or is this a lost cause for me. I mean I not completely without experiance and the last 3 razor I do responded by the book and after finishing on 12K and Crox gave great shaves and shouldn't need touch up for some time, but when I get one like this one and another i'm thinking about I had just like it recently, I start to question what I know or "THINK" I know.

Any thoughts, aside from adjusting my meds any time soon??

Thanks for suffering through my most badly put question, have a great evening!!

tinkersd of SRP