Until its not. Yesterday it was not easy. After my wild success with touching up my Boker using Aaron's (yes Aaron, it is now forever your method!) progression on an Arkie finisher, I couldn't wait to start on the other 10 razors in my current rotation. Next up was a little near-wedge Christopher Johnson that my brother (my picker, he loves flea markets) found for me. This pretty little razor in bone scales was my first almost wedge and cleaned up decently and took a surprisingly easy edge when I first got it (one layer of tape and what a nice, silent shaver). Another 20 minutes or so and more shaving bliss.
Well, that little wedge sucked down on that dry translucent so hard before I knew it up came the spine and whoops; what the heck just happened. Nothing to see here folks, pretend that didn't happen and lets move on. Well, if it grabbed on the dry stone it was like glue when it sucked down on the water. Yep, flipped her again. Nothing a few more strokes won't fix right? No. Remember Ground Hog Day when Bill Murray is racing through each repeating day trying to recapture that magic date? Well, that was me. Three cycles of dry to oil and that sweet little shaver wasn't happy with me. I had to walk away after over an hour (probably two). Hanging hair test? Yeah, no. Even added another layer of tape. Not happening. Today I had hoped to post more success pics and shave happiness. I did have shave happiness but at the edge of a different razor.
Tomorrow I'll do a reboot and try again.
I took a pic of my fail; we do like pics! The darker arkie is my hard; I brought it out on circuit 3 to see if a few strokes on that would bring the edge back. No.
Even a bad day on the stones sure beats mowing the lawn.
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