Thread: Is This Excessive?

Originally Posted by ericd

I ran across this. Notice the description going all the way up to 100k. Seems like more than you usually hear about for finishing a razor. What am I missing?
https://www.facebook.com/bertarellic...type=3&theater

It is called promotion and marketing. Make something sound out of reach and semi mystical and a bunch of unsuspecting newbies will bite and send you their money. Milk the situation till you can and the go work on the next con. Rinse and repeat.

You would not even want to go that far if you could. You need to stop at a point where an edge can support itself.

Boy, those ebay scamster's are something to behold, greedy little........

Thank god you came to the right place, here we do not deal in excess. No, no excess here…

Yea, probably paste, some are higher than 100K, though don’t know if you would call it a 100k edge.

He probably read about it here first…

Have heard some sellers say their leather strop is equal to 100k

I know that CBN abrasive spray is available all the way down to .10 micron, which should be well over 100k grit. As mentioned above, I am sure they are talking about treated stropping instead of hones.

I just wrote and asked them. They finished on a balsa strop with 0.25 micron CBN, which, by my reckoning is correct - 100,000k.

So you want to talk excessive.

Take a good metal polish, Mass or Mothers, paint 3in X’s of either on the inside of a Cereal box cardboard. (By the way with Christmas here, save some of the thin, cheap wrapping boxes, they are larger than Cereal boxes and they make great strops for experimenting with paste.

Now take a razor up to a good finish quality edge, 8 or 12k, now do 50 laps on the pasted cardboard, you will remove all or most all the stria. Now finish, on your finish stone of choice. What you will have is a pure, whatever your stone of choice is edge. The metal paste edge is too rough to shave on but your finisher will clean it up, you may have to lightly joint the edge on the finish stone, depending on how aggressive you got with the paste.

You have to let the paste dry.

Save those boxes, they come in handy.

Excessive? Maybe a little…