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04-11-2007, 09:22 AM #1
Welcome! And your right about that Sensor! I think a little pulling is ok, maybe not optimal but ok. Hair left over is obviously a problem.
Check the razor by running it over your arm hair in the beginning. It shouldn't cut many hairs at all. As you progress through what I describe in para two it should, at some point, start cutting hair.
I would just keep honing. The stone choice is pretty much irrelavant as long as your using high grits. I would stick to the one that is the highest and polish on that for say 20 strokes and check the edge and then add a few strokes on lower grit, just a few, then go back to the higher grit. This will allow you to learn better as the slower cutting will be more forgiving. Test often and use light pressure. You can use a little pressure for the first iteration, a little less for the next, and as little as you can muster for the last. But you must keep the blade flat.
Do this very slowly, take your time. If you go through 3 iterations in under 30 minutes you were probably moving too fast for your skill level. Orient the stones so you can see the edge and spine contact in both directions.
Keep the pressure, distance and angle the same on each side and use an x pattern.
If three iterations fails to improve the edge at all, consider a fourth, but after that I would just stop and ask for more advice as no improvement is indicative that your doing something wrong. There should be some improvement, even if it can't shave perfectly at that point.
Do a search on overhoning so you know what might happen if you go too far.