Today's test:

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A Torrey straight that I had to do a little work to save, honed up with the olive Arkansas. I couldn't resist the urge to play with that big Yellow Nagura some, so I probably did 100 strokes or so on that first. I kinda wish I'd thought to shave test it at this point, but it wouldn't have told me much so it's just as well. Then I made a medium slurry atop the Arkansas with the nagura, and started working the edge and diluting the slurry. Finished up by washing the stone and doing a few hundred strokes on pure water. Not that it really needed all of that, but like I said earlier I was playing around some.

The shave test...well it's definitely an Arkansas edge. But I think I chose a poor test razor. That one arrived in a lot of razors that had 2 good blades and this one, which was cracked. I had to take about a quarter inch of steel off. And while it shaves now better than it ever has, I just don't have skill with a thin 4/8 (or less) blade. Rough calculations put the edge at 17 degrees so I know it didn't get too wide, I just have trouble finding the angle. So it didn't clean up as much as I like to see on the first pass. Or the second. and I had to take a third stroke at some areas. Mostly around the neck, which led to mild irritation.

I had a Morley worked up on the Grey stone. I've found that blade really seems to like Arkansas stones and Welsh slates. But I managed to ding the edge and will probably have to hone that out. I didn't like how it looked after giving it a good stropping.