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05-11-2015, 04:27 AM #15
A few things not covered so far are lapping your hones and that a one pass shave is passable but generally not that great.
Lapping involves flattening the hones using a lapping plate, good quality wet and dry or sand paper on a perfectly flat surface or using loose abrasive media on a perfectly flat surface. The general recommendation for a heaving this is to draw a grid on the hone with pencil, figure eight it on your lapping surface and repeating until all the pencil disappears.
If i do a one pass shave it will get me out of the door without looking homeless but it isn't a great shave, most likely patchy and certainly not smooth from every angle.
Also whilst you have posted pictures of your strop what material and treatment thereof are on each side?Bread and water can so easily become tea and toast