Quote Originally Posted by mparker762 View Post
Just because I sold my norton and coticule doesn't mean I've left the reservation completely . For my vintage sheffields I use a 4k Shapton/tam o'shanter/pink translucent/boron carbide progression. For my handful of microchip-prone razors I'll do 50-80 laps on the tam o'shanter instead of the 4k and 8k Shaptons. But for everything else, there's the Shaptons. I don't even use pasted paddles anymore though I've still got a stack of them in the closet.
Interesting, Michael. Why do you use that TOS – pink translucent progression on Sheffields? – I thought they were fairly soft and not prone to microchipping. And is the pink much finer than the Tam? I don't have a pink, but I had thought from your posts about it that it's ~6K, more or less the same as the Tam.