Thread: Honing a ????????able Damascus Razor

Here is the outcome...

All honing was done using 1 layer of 3M #700 electrical tape. I spent 1 hour trying on the razor..
1k Norton literally was tearing the metal away, looked like a hacksaw blade under magnification, the feel was wrong, the sound was wrong, so I stopped.
Moved it to the 4k and worked a bit with some slurry to even up the edge some using a more gentle approach, again the metal was very soft and worked fast, but I was getting a polish to the edge..
Moved to the 8k and started with a light slurry and diluted out to clear water, still quite a bit of metal swarf on the hone..
I could still pop arm hair but no where near normal, move to the CrOx strop and, bam,,, edge polished right up, looked like a normal razor now and the arm hair popped better, so I stropped it and lathered up...
Shave:
Technically it shaved, there was hair removed, I did one WTG pass and gave up, looking at the edge reveled the problem, there was significant edge damage from just 1/2 a shave... The metal is just not where it needs to be...
If you were to keep a CrOx charge strop handy and do about 10 laps after maybe 2 shaving strokes you could probably shave with the razor...

All kidding aside this is what drives people away from our hobby if this were my first razor my thought would be "Those guys are full of Crap, this sux"
Honestly my face is a bit raw...

You should be able to see the polish of the edge in these pics compared to the first ones from the honing..