Well...
- Yes, I have gone to my c12k and messed up my edge
- No, I have never proceeded with my messed up edge anyway and gone "hog wild" with a pasted strop
Interesting. But hey, if it worked and your face is happy...
With respect to the c12k (and note i don't know if this is good advice or not, so I hope others pipe up.); after lapping mine, I wasn't getting the best results either. So out of desperation, I put a touch, and I mean a touch, of cooking oil on it. It worked for me.
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Well it worked out. I'm BBS smooth two razors two days in a row. I will revisit starting from bevel an progressing through finishing this week as I may be acquiring another razor in a few days.
So I guess I'll have to see.
As for the C12K I will say this. My razors are the sharpest they've been yet and I can't deny that the only thing I did different was use that stone in addition to my normal progression.
I did however use a small diamond hone that's about 600 grit to make a slurry on my C12K and that helped a lot.
As for the pasted strop... How many laps should it take? Because essentially I'm going from ~12k to ~30k so wouldn't that require quite a few laps to work out the "scratches" left behind from the 12k?