Thread: slurry

Bruno is the final polish with water what gives you a good shaving edge at the moment i have done 25 with slurry and 25 with water and razor was'nt bad but not as good as normal. so slurry must round the edge slightly do you agree? and with water refines edge to a good shaving edge and then stropping to finish. what i have done is honed a couple of more laps with just slurry it the razor did get worse. when i get back of holiday i will try with water see how i go.

Yes it is but i might give alapping on my dmt personally i think the slurry has rounded my edge alittle i will try 70 laps with water.

In my limited experience, I need about 100 laps or more to get an edge back to razor sharp after rounding it with slurry.

Originally Posted by gary haywood

Bruno is the final polish with water what gives you a good shaving edge at the moment i have done 25 with slurry and 25 with water and razor was'nt bad but not as good as normal. so slurry must round the edge slightly do you agree? and with water refines edge to a good shaving edge and then stropping to finish. what i have done is honed a couple of more laps with just slurry it the razor did get worse. when i get back of holiday i will try with water see how i go.

It depends on how thick or milky the slurry was.
But is you wash away the slurry, and use only water, there is no harm in doing more laps.
Try doing 50 or 100 laps with water only.

If you have rounded the edge, it is usually best to go back and re establish the bevel /V edge.

!000 to 2000 grit will do it very quickly. if you use wet and dry, the same paper will flatten/lap the surface of your hone.

Then using a heavy slurry on the coticule, hone untill you fell the razor being sucked to the surface. Stop and feel that you have a biting edge.

Again but now with a clean watered surface on your coticule hone until the blade feels as if it is sucking to the hone surface.

Your done with the hone.

If you have Chromium Oxide on leather this will polish even finer, as will newspaper.

If not, no problem, just strop 50 to 100 times on leather.

Your blade (with luck) should be ready to go.

I did use a milky slurry and the razor does still shave but not as well as it shold so i should imagine a thew laps with water should work and i will use chr as i do have some but i'd like to thunk i can get a good shave of the coti first

Good point that

Thanxs for all the advice i will post when i have good result thanxs every one