Quote Originally Posted by CaliforniaCajun View Post
You were right. The daily 10 laps destroyed my edge. I tried refreshing it this morning and it still wasn't enough. I'm going to have to re-hone it. I got out another razor I had fixed up the same day and the difference was night and day.

I think the diamond paste as a finisher right after the hone job is OK, because I initially got great shaves.
Yep. I found this out a couple months ago. Now, I'll do 4-7 CrOx passes on felt and leather, then strop til I feel like it(never less than 50 passes).

I will hand strop between passes just because its novel and *might* make a bit of difference. I clean off the razor then strop it ~20 laps to make sure the moisture is off the edge.

I will go back to the the 4-7 passes on CrOx every 5 shaves or so. Basing on how I feel, I may even decide to refresh the edge on the 12K. What the hey. Only takes 5 minutes and puts a smile on my face as well as giving me additional honing practice-proper pressure and technique.

As per "finning"- the idea seems pretty strange to me.

To the $40 sprays--he's obviously got a market and his uber sharpening pyramid scheme he's got going probably does pretty nicely, *BUT* to me, this seems to be pretty expensive and extremely time consuming versus what I do now. I'm happy with the shaves I get with my current prep, but when I'm not, I point the finger squarely at myself. I go back to basics and careful stropping. As I've said before, 30 careful, deliberate laps on the leather beats 70 high-paced laps.

Different strokes for different folks.