Thread: Sheffield Steel?

Originally Posted by richmondesi

Hey guys, I have a little bit of a problem. I have been able to get great edges off of every type of razor that I have tried except for Sheffield Steel. I recently got a coticule and it was a lot better than anything else I've tried.

Any thoughts on a) is this mental, 2) what do you do to get your edges silky smooth with Sheffield Steel?

I'm not a huge fan of sheffield steel myself. Rodgers are pretty consistently good but W&B tends to be pretty inconsistent, I've got some W&B that are merely ok, and one that is really excellent, and plenty others that are somewhere between.

The excellent one gets honed up to the S30 like solingens and better americans, but for the run-of-the-mill sheffields I generally stop at either the 8k or 15k Shapton, or for the wedges I stop at 1.8 micron boron carbide on a pasted hanger.