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any difference in honing smiling edge?
Hello everyone,
Recently, I acquired a George Wostelholm & Son Original & True Sheffield razor. I've been using another razor, "Bonafide", that I honed pretty well using Lynn's video on honing with the Naniwa SS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=. So I thought that I would use the same method and give this razor a shot. Unfortunately, when it was time for the shave test, I found that the Sheffield razor was more irritating than the old razor, it felt like it was tugging on the hairs more than the old razor. I still managed to shave with it, but it was definitely less comfortable. When looking at the edges more closely, I noticed that the Bonafide has a straighter edge whereas the edge on the Sheffield is more concave to a smiling edge. Here is the picture of the Bonafide:
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And two pictures of the Sheffields:
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Since, I've also noticed that on the Sheffield razor the sides of the edge are a little duller than the center of it, ie I can pop off arm hairs pretty easily if I use the middle of the edge, but if I try to use the toe or the heel of the edge sometimes it has trouble. So, I am wondering, should I retry going through the whole procedure of resetting the bevel and then advancing up the grits and should I use a different technique? I was thinking of using the magic marker test to figure out if my bevel is evenly distributed across the whole edge or not. Or maybe I should simply spend some time at 12k stone to make the edge a little more refined? Im thinking that I could try it out with the rolling x stroke illustrated in the Library section.