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12-30-2019, 10:23 PM #1
I have not done much kamisori honing, this one was honed and used once and put away. Coming home from work Saturday night with the family gone to visit friends I had nothing much to do. I took out the kami from the drawer and gave it some honing on tomo slurry on this narrow, hard kami size Jnat. Finished on slurry.
Today was test shave day. 6 days growth was wiped like nothing giving an almost BBS with the first pass. 2 pass BBS with zero sting from alum or Proraso AS. That thing can shave.
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12-30-2019, 10:39 PM #2
Alex, that’s not a narrow hone for a kamisori! Isn’t it wonderful how efficient the ‘terror sticks’ are? They can shave the barbs off a barbed wire fence.
My doorstop is a Nakayama
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12-30-2019, 10:52 PM #3
I always thought it was since it's only 5cm wide.
Yeah I gave it a good stropping and the HHT looked pretty good but the shave honestly surprised me. I only did half face since on the other half I was testing a Friodur I honed for a fellow member.
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12-30-2019, 11:11 PM #4
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12-31-2019, 12:35 AM #5
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From Tomonagura?
Nice stone and that Tomo is a nice pick, she’s a keeper, did her homework or a good listener.
Do you have other Nagura, how are the shaves?
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12-31-2019, 04:23 AM #6
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12-31-2019, 11:48 AM #7
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01-04-2020, 06:43 PM #8
The Boker "Our Own" Hollow Ground is one of my best shavers. It was a wee-bit tuggy on the last shave, so as I'm still experimenting with the Zulu Grey, I tried another technique I read about on the long "South African Hones" thread. A whole bunch of dry passes on the ZG (I didn't count-maybe 10-15 minutes' worth) followed by my usual stropping regimen brought it back to sharp and smooth. I have yet to find a technique that doesn't work on this stone!
There are many roads to sharp.
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01-12-2020, 10:06 AM #9
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01-12-2020, 04:54 PM #10