Thread: Weird french paddle

Shave tested. BBS. Whatever it is, it is a credible hone. Atg under the nose was effortless with no burn. More the smooth high level sharpness vs the more fizzy, brutal sharp you would get off of certain french finishers or some synths. Tbh, I have no idea. Seems to be something interesting lost to time

Main negative this has is it has no feedback whatsoever... No feeling of draw, no feeling of the stone pushing back the longer you stay on it, or smoothing out or anything. It tells you nothing, it's like you're honing on really hard greased wax. So weird. All I could really go by is edge interaction with the buffer and looking at the bevel with a loupe. Edge is actually quite forgiving. I pegged myself near my ear and what should have been a bad one just left a red mark. That's a big plus....

You mention a slurry as well as a stone polish, so I'm curious about the lapping sequence you used initially. Did you use it with a slurry in honing?

I have nothing to contribute. Regardless, I don't recall ever seeing hone inclusions like that before. I'm also intrigued by your feedback description of it being like hard greased wax yet having no feedback. I expected the usual glass comment.

I have seen inclusions shaped this way before but typically they had more definite crystalline strangeness. I had a coticule that was gray with orange inclusions that were soft and shaped like this. I got rid of it because they had a habit of releasing from the matrix and feeling horrible even though they seemed to do no harm. This doesn't seem to do that. As far as lapping I started at 120 and moved up through to 3000. I haven't felt the need to use the slurry as it seems to cut readily enough burnished as it is even. In my experience, slurry from stones that can cut that way tend to overcook an edge in a hurry. I have had that test on the back burner for when I have time to lap the other side. It's just really strange.

Finished a korean frameback on this tonight so I just wanted to show how the edge was behaving. With my hair this means good things usually.https://youtu.be/M53oFTVLvgs

Looks like a chert to me. It does form in layers as well as nodules.

You could always do a spark test to see if striking it with steel produces a spark.

This edge shaved great and this razor has done nothing but disappoint till now.