Ok, went back to the hones with my TI Le Canadien & W&B 5/8 Bow Razor today.

Le Canadien
I started with a moderate slurry, 20 circles up and 20 back, moderate pressure. Then 5 X strokes, moderate pressure. It passed TNT so I gave it 5 more moderate X-strokes, but it wasn't doing a very good job on arm hair, so I rinsed the stone, raised a bit of a lighter slurry, refreshed the tape, then did another 20 up, 20 down with moderate pressure. Now it was starting to get there. Next step were about 10 X light pressure strokes with light slurry on the 4k. I refreshed the tape on the spine at this point in time. It was starting to dial in, so I rinsed the stone, did another 10 X strokes with just water, no pressure on 4k. Then I did another 10 X Strokes with no pressure and moved to a pyramid:

25/5 20/5 15/5 10/5 7/5 5/5 5/7 3/10 1/10

Now it was popping arm hair with ease, so I moved to the 8k for finishing. With fresh tape, I did 10 no pressure X strokes with water, then rinsed the stone again, wiped away the water with my finger and did 10 slow X strokes with the damp stone. Stropping is SRD Latigo 50/100 then 100 on my episaacs 'roo.

W&B 5/8 Bow

Pretty much the same routine as above, with similar results, though I needed less circles.

The shave test tonight was with the W&B, which didn't come through with flying colours. That said, it was better than last time, so I think, with a conservative pyramid, I might be able to bring it in line. More stone action tomorrow!

Full writeup of tonight's shave is up here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/begin...tml#post904966