Thread: Hard stee, high grit

Yes and no. What I find also to be helpful is to be very gentle with hard steel. I’m often fairly content to use pressure early on with the 1K and softer, older Sheffield steel. Swedes, American, French, and German SS, I tend to steer clear of pressure on the 1K and simply do more laps, and perhaps departing with the bevel not quite as well set as I might otherwise, and again on the 4 or 5K with a very light touch and a higher than usual lap count. I just continue on that way. It was a tough lesson early on from a Friodur 50.
That 72-V is an amazing razor. When I first got mine I used it every day for over a month, I just couldn’t put it down.