Thread: Wonder what this could be?

I got what you mean, I did - if its any good, i'll bring it to the razorcon.

More likely than not I will not be there.

You shall be missed.

I will do my best but as you know hockey is hockey.

I'm pretty sure it is a Yellow Lake. I'll try and post some pics tomorrow. It is a natural, closely resembling a BBW, but harder and with a few very faint lines going through it. It leaves an edge less polished than an Escher and cuts about as quickly. I just had a shave off it and it was very comfortable. I have read these are in the 8-10K region, but I've long stopped caring about 'K.' Personally I don't care for 'K.' It doesn't exist in naturals and never will. There is coarse, medium and fine. I have also seen some hones marked 'very fine.' This is a finishing hone and I would say it is fine. Being British and marked for 'razors,' I wouldn't be surprised if this was the type of hone used used on Sheffield steel.

I don't believe that a relationship indefinitely exists between the quality of a shave and fineness of an edge left by a natural hone that succeeds an 8K artificial, there being no indefinite relationship between fineness and comfort, the latter which may supersede fineness. Charnleys I have had have left a higher polish than Thuringians, but not as nice as shave (for me). This hone does not leave as high a polish as a Thuringian, but off one razor has provided as nice a shave. I look forward to testing it on others.