Thread: Testing the New La Lune

Fair enough. Sorry if I misinterpreted what you said and I would agree that it is definitely easier to do a progression and maybe better also. It is definitely faster to do a synthetic progression than a full ark progression. Sometimes I know I do things for the sake of seeing if it can be done. Whether it is/was a fad or not I don't know but I have toyed with the one stone method "because it was there" as George Mallory would say.

Also, sorry to have highjacked your thread Jerry.

I prefer my Arkie edges.

A lot of people don't like arks because they are "slow" but if you are willing to put a little time into it you can get a fabulous edge from them, my favorite for some things. I discovered a method that works surprisingly well and doesn't take that long really. I posted it somewhere.

One thing that I have discovered about them as a broadly general rule is that the ones sold at least 40-50 years ago are better rock than the ones sold more recently. At least that's my experience.

I have a collection Arks, the finishers, True hard a beautiful stone, hard Black , Translucent a Blue Black any of these produce an excelant edge however the blue Black might be the best.

Ooh nice! Blue black is one I do not have, in fact I have never even seen one in person. I inherited a bunch from my dad. Most of them circa 1960-70. I also have a few trans, a couple of blacks including a surgical black, a calico washita and a Pike No.1 plus a few others.

Oh! I also have a boxed one I believe may be a butterscotch but I got it at an antique store and they coated with some glaze crap to make it shiny like they do with wrenches. It's probably museum wax. I just haven't gotten to that one yet.

Its been a while but today I got somw time to do some honing. When its in the Sub-0 temps outside I cant do much else. LOL

I reset the bevel on this razor and took it to 20k. Then did 20 laps on the LaLune with Clear Water only. Here are a couple micro pics...

20K bevel


Lalune


The same area of the bevel, I didn't change angles or lighting so this should be as same as possible. With all the extra stria I have a hard time believing this will make for a smoother edge, But I haven't test shaved, and as we all know that is the real test. I will put it on a pile of Leather but the test shave will be in a few days as I just had my shave today and have things to do.

You need to change the background for photos to show the edge better.
Try black, Robins egg blue, even white might be better.
The right lighting and background makes a HUGE difference.

Sure. Why not. I can change colors next time. I think I have some colored cardstock around here somewhere.

I can see there's more striations but the edge looks cleaner off the La Lune. It's pretty good in both pics but I think maybe a hair tidier in the after pic.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Sure. Why not. I can change colors next time. I think I have some colored cardstock around here somewhere.

You have my sympathy with taking pictures.