Thread: Hone of the Day

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