I'm going to irritate you guys with a video. I, for some reason, went on a rash of purchases of japanese NOS razors a couple of months ago. This razor is one of the ones made of the schoeller bleckmann special process "phoenix" steel. I have no clue what it's virtue is, I'm more interested in the razor being well made than made of whiz bang steel.

I've been shaving with this razor the last two weeks.

Anyway, I have some very settled in stones, and since oilstones don't really cut steel too much when they're settled in and the steel is approaching polished, I figured I'd see if the shave would work well if I just worked the razor on the stones in various directions without getting into any specific method. It actually worked fine.

Like I said, the shaves have been fine, and my magic point with any razor (oilstone or whatever) is where the razor shaves after it's been to the linen a couple of times. The linen will define where the razor stays for the next 150-300 shaves, and if there's a problem with the sharpening, the linen won't step it up. If there isn't, it'll be in excellent shape after a couple of trips to the linen and feel like every other razor I have.

(Do NOT do this with a razor on stones that have not settled in well, if the stones are coarse and still cutting, they will just raise a fat wire edge).