Thread: The Famous/Infamous Norton 4/8 "JaNorton 2012"

Originally Posted by Martin103

Beautiful razors what is the marking on the french frameback?

It's a interesting razor. And I have three blades for it. It cleaned up well

That is a nice looking blade, going to start my honing in a few days, ill have a nice two week beard to get rid of by that time (been on leave for christmas and I dont ever shave when on leave)
-dan-

Originally Posted by sinnfein

That is a nice looking blade, going to start my honing in a few days, ill have a nice two week beard to get rid of by that time (been on leave for christmas and I dont ever shave when on leave)
-dan-

HooAhh!!
Co Cmdr 400ish CSH unit. I've got some training to do down there later in the year.
Paul

Well the 1/4 hollow Wosty was the first to the hones today. Under magnification I found a bunch of micro chips to the edge.
Start off 1 layer of tape followed by about 600 circles ish on the 4K with about 50 rollingX's just to remove them and set the bevel under heavy pressure. Ugh!
Next replace tape. I then did a progression of descending X's on the 4K starting at 12 passes then 10 then 8 etc. medium presure
Replace tape again. Now 4K/8K pyramid's using the x stroke starting at 10 then 8 etc. light presure
replace tape yet again....at this point in time...BTW nice vid Glen on stone lapping.
Replace tape.... again.... 8K stone with about 40 passes followed by 2 passes on the 4K. Just blade weight now.
Yup you guessed it, replaced tape again. Now was strictly by "feel" as to how it gave feedback so I think it was about 20ish passes on the 8K.
Remove tape and cleaned the blade. 12 passes on HPF strop then 20 passes on SRD webbed nylon strop and finish with 60 passes on SRD IV English Bridle.
The result????
Tested my thigh as the hair here is coarse like my beard. They jumped off with no feeling of the blade to my leg. I'll know for sure when I test shave in the morning but my brain is going into overdrive thinking about this. If needed I'll touch it up when I hone the Frameback in the morning.
Paul

Hooboy. I took the William Elliot to the Norton today. Shot most of the process with my camera. The battery died before I got to the end, which means I'm currently uploading over an hour of video to the Youtuber.

To say that my honing technique is sloppy is almost certainly a terrible understatement, and I'm going to be pretty thoroughly embarrassed to show this off. However! My crappy technique did produce a razor I just shaved with. Not the single most comfortable shave I've had, but solidly good. The edge could be more even (the heel cuts slightly less well than the rest), but the length of the blade works.

To make things extra interesting, I took the Greaves over to Ogershok's place last night and he put a serious edge on it using much nicer rocks than I've got as well as some pasted stropping. I shaved one half of my face with the Greaves and the other half with the Elliot. The Greaves definitely was the nicer shave, no question. But it wasn't worlds apart.

Once I get the videos uploaded I'll start a thread so people can throw rotten fruit at me and, hopefully, point out the things I'm doing stupid with so I can learn to do less stupid.

I don't think I'm going to have a chance to get the Greaves onto the Norton before I leave town for a week, so I'll just have to make a slight variant on the JaNorton formula and spend that first week comparing the Norton shave to the Naniwa/Coticule/PHIG/sub-micron diamond-paste shave.

It isn't a remotely fair contest though. The Greaves is much older steel and probably softer, so it'll lose its sharp faster. Or at least that's the theory.