Originally Posted by
bonusmarple
Thanks for the reply. I did not do the initial honing, however Martin did and he did a good job. After about 10-15 shaves the razor started to dull and I wanted to work with finishers and that is how I got here. At the end of the day, I decided to start over with a Dilucot. At the end of the Dilucot I noticed a couple of things. First, the edge is very, very delicate. I noticed a very small chip after the final pass on the Coticule.
The razor shaves very well and I only did 5 passes on CrOx beyond Bart's Dilucot. What my guess is is that the razor angle is very narrow. The spine width is 5/8 but the width from the edge to the honing flat is wider than my other 5/8ths. My guess is that the edge is a tad on the thin side and that led to some deformation and why I could not get a smooth shave after some time on the razor. I need to haul out the micrometer and run the measurements through the angle algorithm. I think the edge angle is just wide enough to last a few shaves, but not wide enough to really hold up. More to come on this one.