Thread: The C-Nat-athon

it wasn't a warning hehehe it was me going OT

Originally Posted by gssixgun

it wasn't a warning hehehe it was me going OT

Thank you my friend!

Smooth Shaving My Brother In Blades!

Originally Posted by Crotalus

Great. When you find out the proper way to use it I'll be all ears.

I need a little guidance.

Will do, but as the other poster said they are all slightly different, my other one is of the softer grey variety, hopefully this one will be the darker variety

I've been using this old stones as a finisher for a while, but I'm not exactly sure if these are cnat,
they're about barber hone size, 5x2

then I bought a cnat from ebay to compare but the colour more of a blue-gray & my stones are only gray
& the finish I get from ebay's Cnat not as good as mine

do you think they're just the same stone? & only varies in colour & quality since theyre natural
my stones used to belong to my dad's friend who was a surgeon & he used to use these stones for sharpening surgeon blade in the 50's

Originally Posted by Nphocus

Just received the loupe today... not bad for 10$ shipped. I'm away from my hones, but I will be posting my own results next week.

Thank you to everyone for sharing their experiences. I know it may seem like only a few guys post on this thread, but I'm willing to bet there are a significant number of lurkers

lurkers???

I've already acquired a cnat, just waiting for my shaving to improve before attempting honing

Originally Posted by rodb

Will do, but as the other poster said they are all slightly different, my other one is of the softer grey variety, hopefully this one will be the darker variety

Mine is a little darker than your photos, and it has narrow yellow veins running the length of it.

Well I got another shave in today, using my Perfecto, and Wolff Lane & Co. razors alternating to test and compare the edges. I redid the Wolff Lane without a micro bevel this time. They both shaved nice and clean, but it seemed when I shaved with a micro bevel last time it was slightly smoother. I have experimented with micro-bevels on and off before also the unicot method and it does seem to add a little smoothness.

Since we are wrapping up this experiment I was thinking I would start another group experiment surrounding the idea of micro-bevels. Any of you guys that want to participate just say so and I'll get started (I have some fancy charts I wanna use). lol

Well, This thread has taught me something that will stick with me for a while now.

I tried as we discussed earlier to re-use as much of my old slurry as possible, and I managed to do a pretty good job of it.

Here is a link to my SOTD post with the razor I worked on today.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/shave...tml#post938254

You see, early on in my wet shaving days I has RAD fairly badly, which is why I have so many razors. I got the restoration bug first, and bought a lot of junk razors on ebay and then restored them. I paid good money to get them honed up and then proceeded to roll the edges on most of them learning to strop properly, as I have said before.

The razors that I got later in my wet shaving career were all still fairly good, and I could get passable shaves from them, but in the back of my mind was always to learn how to use my stones to their maximum efficiency which in the last 3 months I have tried really hard to do.

So, today I tackled what I consider to be my finest restoration job ever, one I never managed to do better than. I have a few that I came close on, but my Genco came out so nice that it is my standard by which all my other restorations are to be judged against. Not many stack up to it.

I got brave after all this honing practice and decided it was time for her to get back into my rotation, so today I honed it up.

I only had to do 75 laps on my CNat after the 4/8 pyramid and the entire length of the edge was as good as any I have ever done. I did my customary 5 & 10 on the diamond/CrOx paddles, then I tried something different and only did 25 on the clean felt, but I did 100 on my horsehide strop and 100 on my chestnut cowhide strop.

The shave was amazing! I have been faceturbating for the last 6 hours since I shaved.

I think I have a good repeatable routine to do nice and flat, non-smiling edges with. It's still the rolling X's and the curvy ones that will continue to give me grief.

I'm losing my fear of honing up my dull razors though, which has occurred only in the last 2 months.

I still have 5 or 6 that I could work on slowly, including a couple I honed early on that aren't quite up to par compared to my last few. There's a couple of my Spikes that could use some touching up, and one that flat out needs to go back to the bevel (I checked them out today to see if I have improved since I honed them).

The finer the slurry, the less laps to get a good result, or at least so it seems to me. Also, the size of the bevel seems important when it comes to the number of laps needed. This Genco has a very small, narrow bevel compared to some I have honed. Perhaps that is a contributor, that and I learned not to over do it quite so much in the last few weeks. I am the king of overkill, LOL!!

I'm not sure I'm ready for a micro bevel yet, but I'd be game if you start it up Mack!

Happy Honing!!

Mike

Originally Posted by sigit666

I've been using this old stones as a finisher for a while, but I'm not exactly sure if these are cnat,
they're about barber hone size, 5x2

then I bought a cnat from ebay to compare but the colour more of a blue-gray & my stones are only gray
& the finish I get from ebay's Cnat not as good as mine

do you think they're just the same stone? & only varies in colour & quality since theyre natural
my stones used to belong to my dad's friend who was a surgeon & he used to use these stones for sharpening surgeon blade in the 50's

My friend, I am not enough of a stone's expert to say based on your pic's, but I didn't want you to think you were being ignored. Either way, Your small stones appear to be of a very similar type, judging by your pics. You never know since they are way older, it could be a matter of being from a different depth or location.

Happy Honing!!

M

Originally Posted by sigit666

I've been using this old stones as a finisher for a while, but I'm not exactly sure if these are cnat,
they're about barber hone size, 5x2

then I bought a cnat from ebay to compare but the colour more of a blue-gray & my stones are only gray
& the finish I get from ebay's Cnat not as good as mine

do you think they're just the same stone? & only varies in colour & quality since theyre natural
my stones used to belong to my dad's friend who was a surgeon & he used to use these stones for sharpening surgeon blade in the 50's

That first picture sure look like a slip stone to me! And the size is right as well!