The second razor would be a good idea. It is all to commomn for a new guy to dull his first razor with improper stropping. Usually they use to much pressure and/or have to much slack in the strop
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The second razor would be a good idea. It is all to commomn for a new guy to dull his first razor with improper stropping. Usually they use to much pressure and/or have to much slack in the strop
Thanks for all the input here. My current status is that Tony is working on a 4- sided pasted paddle for me and I've ordered 2 more razors with none received yet. (My wife is buying new living room lamps so I'm not in trouble yet). The second is a Robeson Shuredge from Bob Keyes and the third is Joe Crowley's last G&F plain jain (a new 6/8ths rounded) versus the other 2 which are used 5/8ths pointed models
The hardest part of this process is that I can't seem to get away from the Board and reading threads. I just discoved the archived help files and the concept of pyramiding with the Norton. Is there a similar pyramiding concept with the paddle?
Pyramiding with the paddle strop is not advisable because of cross contamination of grits.
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Originally Posted by schatz
Agreed. I never pyramid with my paddle; not because of cross contamination, but just because I've never needed to. Moving along the grits succesively has always worked fine for me. However, I don't think I've ever overdone it on one paste to require any sort of pyramiding.Quote:
Originally Posted by randydance062449
If I feel the blade isn't as keen as it could be after I'm done. I'll usually go back one or two grits. I never had a blade at a point that I needed to entirely redo the process.
Also, before moving from one paste to another, I ALWAYS wipe the blade to prevent any contamination. I also perform a little testing to see where I'm at as well.
These are just my methods. I've had more than satisfactory results with them so far, so I figured you might get something out of them as well. Just my 2¢.