Thread: Suehiro Gokumyo 20k review

So my rock finally arrived yesterday and I went ahead and honed all my razors on it, thought i better do a write up about my experience in case there are people like me out there who don't like to mess with pastes... here is a quick review of how different razors take the edge off of the Gokumyo 20k stone.

Razors I own, and will be writing about:
filarmonica 13
a.peter
revisor
wade&bucher for barbers use.

I used a touch up progression starting from 10 X strokes on Naniwa 8k, then 12-14 X strokes on Naniwa 12k and finally finishing with another 12-14 X strokes on the G20.

First razor I thought I'd shave with was one of the Filarmonicas last night. Did my usual routine with shower, Cremo cream as pre-shave, super-lather on top of the Cremo cream and blade is in my hands...

Now I should mention that, I have had my fillies professionally honed before and have loved how they have been shaving. I also touched them up on naniwas a couple of times, still retaining a good shaving edge. Last night however, it was something else! The blade was sliding on the skin of my face like a feather, yet picking up all the hairs on the way.

Cheeks were BBS straight from the first pass WTG. Around chin and lips my hairs are very coarse so I always just do two WTG passes, but this was the first time I felt that I could do an ATG! No pulling at all!

After the two passes (WTG, ATG) I rinsed off the rest of the lather left over, dried with the towel and applied alum bloc. The amount of stinging you get from it is a decent indicator of how irritated your skin is. This time, it was an incredibly little amount of stinging, no bumps, red areas or anything. I waited a little and applied prorazo white aftershave, and again no stinging.

It was the best shave I've had - thank you Suehiro!

To sum it up, Filarmonica loved the new stone and gets 10 out of 10.