Quote Originally Posted by L R Harner View Post
i made a 3v blade and was told it shaved well but it will be a bugger to hone i think
i dont remember how lonk it took to set the bevel on it
i am curelanty testing cpm154 for use on all SS razors i have orders for
so far its working well but needs more stroping then plain carbon (was 99% sure that was going to be the case anyhow)
Needs more stroping? So that means that the edge holding for CPM154 is worse than for carbon steel? That's a surprise.

Quote Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff View Post
On my O-1 razor I had to set the bevel with 400 & 600 grit sandpaper
followed by a 1k hone, norton 4/8k kitayama 12k, and then worked on diamond pastes down to .5 micron
it took me several hours of stropping on diamond pastes to get it right.
Everything I used seemed to take ten times longer to do anything.
Ohhh.... that's so 2-years-ago. DMT 325/600, Shapton 1k onward would be much faster