Thread: Hone of the Day

Originally Posted by Philipp78

Dear Honing-Friends,

In other thread I've mentioned that my Caschmiso has some rusting problems.

Today I've hand-repolisched the blade sides, unfortunateley not all spots could be removed as they are too deep and the razor blade is to thinn (before polishing it was 0.26mm, all other razors are not bellow 0.3mm).
In addition I wanted to try the suggestion from Geezer to use baking soda while honing to reduce/prevent rusting.

So after polishing the edge was destroyed, so I've set the bevel using Coticuly La Veignette with milky slurry.
Once set I went to Ohzuku + Yae-Botan > Meijiro > Tenjho
For finishing I've created some light-milky slurry with light green thuringian slurry stone on Zulu Grey

Done some dozens of x-strokes.
Once the razor started sticking to the stone I've added some very light soapy water to reduce the friction.
Done another couple of dizens x-strokes.

the HHT after Linen stropping on thinnest hair showed 1 HHT lower performance at the tip and the fore part of the razor (seems to be my honing-weakpoint).
Refreshed the thuri-slurry on Zulu and redone soem dozens of x-strokes focusing on the fore part of Caschmiso.

Linen --> consistent HHT 4-5 with thinnest hair --> Caschmiso is ready for shaving (probably on sunnday).

Some pics, taken with my mobile phone through the ocular of my "cheap"-microscop, magnification of 160x





P.S. The razor has generated no rust on the polished surface, but those tiny deep spots has turned dark after some honing (patina/rust). So unfortunately I could not totaly solve the issue.

Wow! those striations look particularly bad in my opinion, I wouldn't be happy if I saw those off a 1K never mind a finishing hone.
PS this is one of my edges off a 12K hone at 300 x magnification.