A Charnley forest quick test
Just the other day I received a Charnley Forest hone in a beautiful wooden box.
I was immediately intrigued by this particular stone, and decided to do a little study of how it performs.
What I wanted to do was compare it to my Y/G Escher, which I absolutely love, and use on all my razors for finishing.
I quite simply took 15 of the 30 razors in my current rotation(all honed with Naniwa 2-5-8-12K, and with good bevels) and went ahead and gave them all a round on this new stone of mine.(the other 15 got, or had, the similar treatment on the Escher)
This took me a good 16 hours to do:boohoo:
What I think I experienced, and wanted to ask the knowledgeable members on this board was this:
It seemed that the feedback of the stone was somewhat easier to read, in comparison to my Escher. What I mean by this is that I was able to, I think, feel the stone doing it's work on the scratch-marks. I felt more readily able to "feel" when I had reached that super polished feel. This may be way off, but that was the feeling I had when using this stone.
Does anyone else have any thoughts and experiences regarding these 2 fine finishers?
As to the resulting test shaves, I wasn't able to separate who got finished on what stone. They all felt sharp, and smooth. Perhaps I will be able to someday, but I'm quite simply not experienced yet:)