Thread: Stainless steel razors on Shapton Pros.

Lol, I was just out of that stropping rabbit hole. But for this one, I do think I need to fix the geometry issues first.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Not to go down another rabbit hole, but it the foundation is not perfect, the shave will never be perfect. The most important hone in your arsenal is your bevel setter. Raise the heel, repair the shape of the edge, ensure the bevel is perfect and the rest is just polishing that perfect bevel, but if you go too far on any of the hones above 8K or on pastes, the edge can deteriorate quite rapidly.

Haha, I learnt that myself, the hard way. I was using 0.1 diamond strop to maintain my razors, then after a couple of month, I found there were full of micro chips on the edge. So I stopped that for quite a while, and I pull it out simply because 30K could not cut the stainless.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Agreed 100%. No matter what you do with the stones...any stones, that shave will not be a 30k shave until the bevel is set right and that will not happen until the heel is fixed and the edge is reshaped.

Cannot agree more.

Bummer. The edge is warped. I set the bevel but seem to have created a minor frown, it's less than 0.1mm but it's a frown. Advices?




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Originally Posted by mrjin

Bummer. The edge is warped. I set the bevel but seem to have created a minor frown, it's less than 0.1mm but it's a frown. Advices?

I don't mean to sound harsh but...

Best advice right now is coat it in anhydrous lanolin & put it aside till you know what you're doing. There's plenty advice in this thread already & I don't see you taking it.

The first thing that should have been done was to radius the heel. You were already told that.
If the razor is truly warped you should have used a rockin n rollin x stroke to hone it. Bet you didn't .

And what's with the tape on one side ?