Thread: In a hurry? Spyder-slurry!

I got bored yesterday, so I tried honing with a little slurry on my spyderco UF;

I created it with a little DMT-like diamond pocket hone (about1"x3"), just like you would with a regular slurry stone.

WOW! Other than a brand new DMT, or sandpaper, I have never seen anything cut so fast. When I get off work today, I will have to post some pics of all the steel that got blasted off that razor. In 10-15 passes it knocked off ALL the marks from the DMT 8K, unreal... Darn near a mirror polish.

After about 10 passes on a light slurry, I made about 20-30 passes water-only to try and clean up the edge afterwards. I haven't test shaved yet, or experimented with it on more than 2 razors yet, but it does open up another use for the UF. And it had much better feedback too, almost like my coticule really!

I have a few razors that refuse to play nice with me, so I may test them on the Fine or Medium with slurry just to see what happens.

Wow never thought of doing that with my spydes may as well give it a try thanks

yep, just never would have thought of using a slurry on the UF, maybe I'll give it a go the next time I've got some honing to do.

Thanks for the report, looking forward to reading about the shave results.

I don't use my UF very often. I wonder if I would use it more if I could find a local stonecutter to cut an inch off the end to use as a rubbing stone?

Also, I've never used my wet, so I'll have to try that too!

Thanks for the ideas.

Here are the step by step pics of honing up a Clauss "New Departure Razor" I got from ebay a few days ago. I used the ol' black magic marker routine to set the bevel on the DMT 1200.



Here's the little diamond pocket hone aka. slurry stone


Just rub that guy around like a regular slurry stone, no big deal...


These pics are to show the consistency of the slurry, it's pretty light, but it's more than enough as you will see.



This swarf and slurry you see on here is after 5 passes!




As you can see, it really blasts the steel off. Like I said above, I still do some passes with water only to refine the edge a bit more afterwards.

I test shaved with 2 other razors (a Torrey and a Wilbert) that have gone through this process, and I am happy with the results. Very nice, very sharp and smooth.

I have a Shumate, the Clauss shown above, and a Robeson I honed up like this as well. I am patiently waiting till I grow more facial hair to continue testing.

Great photos and very informative. Thanks!

I tried this on my small spyderco medium hone. It definately does improve the feedback from the hone. Still can't quite get it to work for me though, but that's just inexperience I think.
Thanks for the tip.

Connor

im going to try it tonight and report back as well i think ill like it

Quick update: on some of my razors, I need to make upwards of 20-50 passes on the UF (after cleaning thoroughly) with no slurry to get the best edge.

So far, it seems to be very similar to the "coticule with slurry and then coticule with water only" progression, except faster and finer.

I will keep with the updates as I find things of relevance.

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