Quote Originally Posted by mackie View Post
I am new to this site and this is my first post. I was looking for something on an Esmelin A Paris razor . I have one that I bought at a flea market. It had both handles broken and mostly gone so I made two new ones out of Padauk, and jeweled and sharpened the blade. I have restored and sharpened quite a few in the past and I shave with them. I am a knife maker. I can not get this razor sharp enough no matter what I do. I have started with a fairly course sharpening stone and worked up gradually to a fine 8000 razor stone, finishing with about 300 strokes on it. Still it will not do a very good job. My camera is on the blink so I can't send a pic for a few days. The steel seems to be of good quality. An interesting thing is that the finger loop or tang, is very small. Just thought I would put my two cents worth in. Thanks, Mack
At first welcome.
i will answer to your questions and hope your message will move to right location by moderators. that is why you are not getting response.
Sorry to say knife sharpening is a little different then razor sharpening. May be that is the cause. I see you said you have sharpen some razor's before and satisfied. My suggestion will be try send 1 of your razor's out to sharpen with Pro's(you can find their names on classified ) that will help you to see how sharp straight razor should be and how it should act.
Is your razor hallow ground or wedge?
i personally never had any problem sharpening French made razor's.
if you can give a little more information
we may be more help.
Example
grind of the blade.
what stones do you have including their grits
300 laps on 8k means you have jumped to 8 k too early.
if you have 4k or 1k go back to one of them.
try set bevel at first with 1k and come back up.
please use 1 layer tape to protect the back of the blade.
hope i was helpful
GL