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09-10-2009, 06:01 PM #1Chat room is open
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There are razors made by R. Herder and by F. Herder. I have a couple of them.
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09-10-2009, 06:10 PM #2Usagi Yojimbo
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The old Japanese barber was right when he challenged you. He recognized your potential...and much more I believe.
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09-10-2009, 06:32 PM #3what Dad calls me
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Skill as well as good steel! I have a herder around here somewhere, now I have to go find it....again.
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain
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09-10-2009, 07:41 PM #4Comfortably Numb
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sorry if I didn't get this the first time around, but were you using all naniwas?... you gotta tell me how the edge is after some time with your japanese finishers (Oh I want one of those babies badly). cool post, although I gotta side with Jimmy on this one, you shouldn't have let the cat out of the bag... now everyone is going to be buying them up!
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09-10-2009, 07:57 PM #5Senior Member
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A Herder was the first razor I managed to hone satisfactorily and it still is one of my sharpest razors. Mine was really easy to hone as well, keeps its edge very well too.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.
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09-10-2009, 08:28 PM #6Senior Member
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Congrats on a good honing but more so in identifying what your razor needed before honing half of it away, not that you would, but some have.
It's not the norm so don't get too used to it. I've had some from time to time that behaved as you describe but I won't give their names up. They are far and few between for me. At least it seems that way.
I honed up a big wedge a few weeks ago that was sharp in no time. It was a pleasant surprise as some have tried my patients.
Hope you have many more great experiences like this in the future!“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” (A. Einstein)
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09-11-2009, 01:37 AM #7
Gents,
I appreciate all your kind words, and while I hope that there is an element of improving skill here, I have to be honest--I don't see it. I still have razors that give me fits...there's still so much to learn.
Dave, I used a 1K Japanese made Diamond plate, a 2K Naniwa Super stone, a 4K king Home Stone, and an 8K super stone.
This was an F Herder, by the way. It's a "Square" (says so right on the tang...) but I think it's more of a spike point, and it's around a 13/16.
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