Quote Originally Posted by yboivin View Post
I want to thanks everyone for responding. My question now is how to get out of that situation. I have 4-6 microns, 3 microns and 0.5 microns pastes on Thiers-Issare paddle strop.

How sould I use these to renew the edge to an acceptable sharpeness ?

Thanks !
There are two choices from where you are at:

Send it out or give it a shot and then probably still send it out.

The greatest difficulty is that paddle strops work best when you already have a good blade angle on your razor. If you don't have that, then they won't help you make one, because of the pliability they have. So If we assume that you are in pretty good shape with your blade angle we can proceed.

I would look up the thread from Joshearl, on pyramid honing. It is a complete tutorial on how to hone using this method which I think is the easiest and best way to go about it. For our purposes I would treat your 4-6 micron side as the 4000 and your 3 micron side as the 8000 grits. I would then put your razor through a full conservative pyramid with one change. Triple all the numbers of laps on the hones. Then try shaving again and see where you are at. If there is no change or heaven forbid the shave gets worse, I woudl say we ae in send it out or get a hone territory.

Good luck!