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'Touching' up a 4/8 Sheffield with Arkansas stones
Having been buoyed by my recent success with honing a vintage, favorite razor (thanks again Euchlid440), I tackled another vintage Sheffield that had not been shaving well at all. It had been pro-honed last year but started tugging and I tried to touch it up but could never get it to shave well again. After some enlightening mentoring help, I finally got my Arkansas stones flat and my translucent burnished.
Before starting I inspected the edge under a loupe and it actually looked perfect; invisible. So I marked the edge with a sharpie and ran it on my Hard stone and saw the entire edge was not making contact; pretty significant spine wear and uneven. So I used a layer of tape and was able to get the bevel to contact the stone completely (took some time, and many changes of tape, in retrospect it probably would have been better to go with two layers of tape).
Went to the finishing translucent and probably did 250 laps.
Was admiring my work with the loupe and 'TINK', touched the loupe to the edge. Sat there stunned. Now that invisible edge wasn't so invisible now. Tell me I'm not the only numb-nuts to have done this. :cry:
Back to the tran for another 100 laps. Then 10 light strops on Crox followed by 20 on canvas.
Stropped on leather and she shaved amazing this morning!!
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And a pic for reading!
Paul