Thread: Hone of the Day

Steve:
Is that a 32 in Pakydern, one of my weaknesses!

Originally Posted by FranfC

Steve:
Is that a 32 in Pakydern, one of my weaknesses!

Yes, but it’s actually a 33.

“Pachyderm”, love some sites where they post a pic and then say “Faux” Ivory, looks and feels just like real Ivory.

Now days, who knows, Google will do a word search with the feds and hunt you down. It is a new and scary world. Funny how Orwell was so perceptive.

Just playing with the stones again, this time a nice mizu asagi (water blue) and my user-grade F14 test razor, tomo is a huge pure asagi from Takeshi. I’ll have a nice fresh edge for the Sunday morning shave.

Well, finally got around to finishing my first full restore, successfully - if i do say so myself.

It was a bit rough at the first try, but i just went a few more rounds on the blue coti and it was all good!Oddly, and this I did not expect, a few rounds on the blue side of the coti and it was smooth enough to shave. I did end up doing a few turns in the yellow side and the thuri to finish off ofc, but still... Nice smooth shave, no nicks or roughness so yay! Still, not as good as that time outback restored a norris for me, that one was godly smooth.



oh you know, forgot to add: meant to ask, how do I know it's time to move to next stone without the use of a loupe?

I basically use the 1k until it passes the thumbnail test. Then I 4k until it tree tops a few hairs. Move to 8k until it tree tops more hairs and more smoothly. Etc etc. I do that even with a loupe.

But, you gotta just do trial and error to find your benchmarks. I don't count strokes are anything, I just test every time I need to add water. I just kept scraping and testing until it seemed like I was no longer getting improvement on each stone.

Your razor looks great. Nice job.

Once you’re above 2k, you can give it a few licks on a strop or your hand and it should pass HHT, getting better with each higher grit - but a loupe is cheap and works better at lower grits.

Up today is a 7/8 F & F Paris Le Hyalin, using the usual bulletproof sequence, a Shapton Glass 2k HR for bevel set (it was already pretty much shave ready but I wanted the heel a little better), a Shapton Glass 6k HC, and jnat. The edge was as good as it gets with HHT.