Thread: After nakayama, to paste or not to paste? (And mini nakayama review)

We had a really good time at the NC Gathering doing something similar. We tried 10 strokes each on a Nakayama, Charnley, Shapton 16K, Naniwa Super 12K, Escher and Coticule and then followed on each with Yellowstone on a poly webbing or .5 diamond on felt or chromium oxide on felt. We were using a thumb pad on each of the razors and ended up shaving with a few of them too. There was great similarity on the thumb pad testing to all the razors off the stones and they all had that degree of sticky sharp to them. The pastes in every case took some of the sticky out or seemed to smooth the edge a little. The 3 razors I shaved with cut through a more than 2 day beard like butter.

These experiments are really great because I really believe and have seen that you you can shave right off all the stones mentioned and add the Norton 8K to those. I find that the quality of the shave is improved with the pastes and have never personally seen any edge denegration as a result of using them.

Lynn