Yeah, Tom, It's a great looking blade I'm just thinking I'll leave it for a while and maybe go with my gut feeling and buy a flecked horn blank.
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An oldie W&B Battleship and a Japanese Kenwa kami grind.
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A good size natural combo coticule 10x2-1/4.Bought here a couple years back. Honing a Wade & Butcher that gives a smooth shave with this stone.
Honed up these 2 tonight. Bengal 6/8ths and a T.I 5/8ths
The T.I half hollow ,not mine but it is the owners favourite razor .
The Bengal I just shaved with and it was great, hardly any work on the stones.
Naniwa 1,5,10k & Gok 20k.
Cheers and Goodnight :)
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Clauss honed on a natural combo coticule my friend Scott calls, the one that looks like a stick of butter.
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3/4 Burrell Top Flight No.1 finished on this raw coticule.Stone came with nice old box.
That 1700s' show:
Pipe Razor...John Lindley <1787...Pobably
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Pike Chocolate Hone, probably! ~ +8K
Hybrid Thuringer for finish
Paddle strop w CromOx
And, She does shave well!
~Richard
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This Thiers Issard hasn't been used in a couple of years; I prefer the smaller blades. But it's due. I thought I'd just touch it up, but I didn't like the undercut on my away stroke. So I slurried the coticule (for the first time in a year) and did the full meal deal. I like the keenness resulting from 40 strokes on the Cretan, but not the finish. 100 more strokes on the coticule with water and a good stropping yielded consistent HHT 3. I've done better recently, but that's what I got today. We'll see how it shaves tomorrow.