Thread: Hone of the Day

My God, that's almost depressing...

Originally Posted by Aerdvaark

My God, that's almost depressing...

It will happen ocassionally. Sometimes I am sure the bevel is OK, but then in the end it's just not where it needs to be. On this razor, I dropped back to my La Veinette coticule on slurry, that straightened her right up.

Now the sand in Mikawa nagura can really ruin your day. I can usually feel it, it will scratch the surface of the stone when it appears, then I just use my loupe to check and poke it out. The scratch was there this time as well, but only for the shortest moment before it fell out. Luckily I ran my fingers through the slurry....

I just shaved and heading off to work. Catch ya'll later!

2 brand new Solingen razors - Bismark and Revisor on Jnats .Komanagura and tomo - for the 2 diferent steels Colorfull akepin tomo and thuringian blue-green tomo Exelent edges

This one gets hone of the month from me. Anyone ever tried putting a shaving edge on one of these? The blade is some kind of alien grade steel of some kind. Oh, the gymnastics I had to perform to get this one mostly ready!
Still needs some work at the toe. With tape, without, I tried everything to get this one sticky on my thumb at N 1k. Sheesh!!!
I'm just now taking it to my Mad Suita, or as I call it, coticule of steroids times 10.



I just have to say, I had some reservations about trying to shave with this thing after the hell it put me through trying to get it shave ready, I have to say, I'm very very impressed with this big monster of a straight razor. It's a little heavy and thin where you hold it but it cuts with the best of them all day long. She even sliced a small piece of my chin off. So we could get acquainted I guess...lol! I like them because their different and you can take them apart, I love things you can take apart. The little inset brass screw on mine I stripped though trying to take it apart, sure it will be easy to fix though. I can see the edge staying on this forever for as long as it took me to get it there..

Originally Posted by Aerdvaark

This one gets hone of the month from me. Anyone ever tried putting a shaving edge on one of these? The blade is some kind of alien grade steel of some kind. Oh, the gymnastics I had to perform to get this one mostly ready!
Still needs some work at the toe. With tape, without, I tried everything to get this one sticky on my thumb at N 1k. Sheesh!!!
I'm just now taking it to my Mad Suita, or as I call it, coticule of steroids times 10.



I just have to say, I had some reservations about trying to shave with this thing after the hell it put me through trying to get it shave ready, I have to say, I'm very very impressed with this big monster of a straight razor. It's a little heavy and thin where you hold it but it cuts with the best of them all day long. She even sliced a small piece of my chin off. So we could get acquainted I guess...lol! I like them because their different and you can take them apart, I love things you can take apart. The little inset brass screw on mine I stripped though trying to take it apart, sure it will be easy to fix though. I can see the edge staying on this forever for as long as it took me to get it there..

Those are beautiful frame backed razors, and that Lecoutre could very well be one of his "Infernal Tempre", many of those one have patterned steel and say are a Damascus type steel, or they just put a pretty pattern on the blade to make it look that way. The one's I've honed, sometimes never seem to grip on your thumb pad they way you'd expect, but are nonetheless stellar razors IME...and that is a nice one, beautiful Swiss frameback.

Gotta love American Steel another one from "The Man" George Korn,, this one barely made it through the edge restore, it was touch and go with all the chips and cracks

Edge Restore - DMT 325 2 layers of tape
Hard bevel Set - Chosera 1k 2 layers of tape
Honing - Shapton 1-2-4-6-8-16-30 1 layer of tape


Wooooooo baby

5 finished this week back out Monday morning, no issues although the whole batch were ineed of a complete bevel reset so 1K Chosera up through the progression Chosera 1K, 3K, 5K, Snow White 8K Naniwa 12K finally Suehiro Gokumyo 20K.

I refreshed a Torrey on a Naniwa 12k and Thuringian bout this morning.

I got this SR Drescher from the German bay about a year ago. It had a visible chip in the heel. I've discussed this blade in other threads. Three times I have killed the edge, thought I set a bevel, and finished on my coticule. Each time I shaved, I was severely disappointed and finished the shave with the daily driver. Not so today...
Reset the bevel on the King, honed on the Belgian with milk slurry diluting to water, finished on the coticule with 150+ x-strokes on water. I now know what weight of blade pressure feels like. Here's the proof...


So smooth. I've had edges provided by Glen and Vasilis. Maybe not quite like their's, but close. And this one was mine...