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I ordered a new straight razor it arrived yesterday along with the brush. The item was as described handle is steel+wood handle and the razor/blade is steel as well. The blade is a straight blade not the curved one I washed the blade and tried shaving but this thing just isn't cutting I tried every possible angle and pressure but nothing. I tried against and with the grain nothing : /
I even tried shaving some hair on the arm but it's just not cutting at all. However the blade does feel sharp to the touch when I press on it with my finger.
What I have in my disposal is a sharpening stone, sharpening file both for kitchen knifes and I have few straps of Japanese tooling leather some are regular some are vegetable treated and off course the old
military leather belt.
I tried 100 swaps on the tooling leather and the blade is just not as sharp to cut when you pull against the direction of hair growth even if I apply pretty decent pressure I don't want to hit it with a stone to ruin the blade. What are my options ?
They told me to come here. I'm a novice at all this I tried a shave with a straight razor before using my grandfathers and I loved it but after my grandfather passed however was packing up the house seems to have thrown it away. I found a very similar model on a Japanese store all steel (I did not like what you get in some barber stores wood+blade or plastic+blade it feels way to light) on this one both handle and blade are steel and pretty heavy to the touch.