Thread: Tested with Coticule Razor Honing, fine linen Strop.Toilet paper cutting test.+HHT.

Originally Posted by JP5

Thanks for the additional pictures! That answers my question about the grind.

"Wooden handle tail bulb, probably Indian razor, not recommended"

Sorry, can you elaborate?

This is a picture on the Internet, made in India in modern times, and it seems that there is a problem with the heat treatment.

Oh! I've seen some like that. They looked TOO good so I was skeptical. Thanks for the warning!

Originally Posted by JP5

Oh! I've seen some like that. They looked TOO good so I was skeptical. Thanks for the warning!

Looking for a neatly curvy look depends only on the skill of the maker, there is a "chance" of finding a good razor, but also luck.

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Originally Posted by Pedigree

Professionally? LOL

There are quite a few members here that hone razors and are paid for their service. Isn't that what a professional is?
It is always my recommendation to send out a razor to a professional so you have a bench mark to compare your own efforts, maybe you should try that.
Is the problem your new production TI razors?

Originally Posted by Gasman

the edge is trailing on the flat. ON THE FLAT, not with the strop rolling up over the edge. THAT is the difference that is hard on an edge.

This is an interesting observation for me...

It took me a lot longer to get to a reasonable level of razor stropping than it did honing. I should have read up more about it tbh, but just went with trial and error mostly. And the technique I've settled on as giving me the best and easiest edges involves having the strop pulled taught - maybe a little tighter than your man Finnegan in the video - but not really tight. Then applying a bit of pressure on the spine, but just touching the edge very lightly on the strop during the stroke.

And I wondered why that worked, as I thought I was probably meant to be pulling the strop tighter... It hadn't actually occurred to me that this technique, if you watch it in slow motion as you say, actually results in the strop being flat at and behind where the edge is making contact. So you don't round the edge.

Good to know why what I've found works for me is actually correct!

An observation, without wanting to pass judgement on anything...

If you're not looking at something with a loupe or scope there's basically no better way to tell the state of a burr than by cutting paper, any paper. You have to get a feel for it, and I personally wouldn't do it with a razor (occasionally after bevel set), but once you do it's pretty much foolproof. And in fact thinner paper is even better for it than kitchen roll, because it's more about feel than whether something cuts it or not. But any paper will do, once you've calibrated and know how it should be.

How you cut it is also important; OP was using a pull stroke there on tightly bunched kitchen roll by the look of it. The razor would have cut it better if it had a burr/wire edge remaining I assure you. Or it would just have pulled it off.

But the same hypothetical razor (with a burr or wire edge) would drop cut paper less well than one without.

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Also a very pedantic, semantic point - you're extremely unlikely to roll an edge by stropping like that. You'll round it and feck it up, but you wouldn't roll it.

Originally Posted by cotedupy

An observation, without wanting to pass judgement on anything...

If you're not looking at something with a loupe or scope there's basically no better way to tell the state of a burr than by cutting paper, any paper. You have to get a feel for it, and I personally wouldn't do it with a razor (occasionally after bevel set), but once you do it's pretty much foolproof. And in fact thinner paper is even better for it than kitchen roll, because it's more about feel than whether something cuts it or not. But any paper will do, once you've calibrated and know how it should be.

How you cut it is also important; OP was using a pull stroke there on tightly bunched kitchen roll by the look of it. The razor would have cut it better if it had a burr/wire edge remaining I assure you. Or it would just have pulled it off.

But the same hypothetical razor (with a burr or wire edge) would drop cut paper less well than one without.

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Also a very pedantic, semantic point - you're extremely unlikely to roll an edge by stropping like that. You'll round it and feck it up, but you wouldn't roll it.

I use thin, soft toilet paper.

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Kirkland tissues?

Even got costco in Taiwan!