Thread: The C-Nat-athon

My shave of the day, errr how I shave since I started:



We got the cheap illinios strop. I almost hit my mark to buy a better strop, Had it all picked out, the payday morning shave and I put a nick in the strop. That reset my 2 month of no nicks and buy a nice strop counter. I still got a few weeks to go, fingers crossed!

Next we have the Van Der Haagen Luxury shave set. I splurged a bit for the balding badger brush. Though true to the amazon reviews, they took care of my brush that just kept getting worse and worse and still shed like crazy after a couple months (20+ hairs each use), by sending me one that still looses a hair or two each use after a couple months. Their handy dandy apothecary mug. Their soap from the luxury set. I have tried some Williams soap (reminds me of a hard day at the chemical factory) and some colonel conk bay rum (which either I failed to lather good, or it just dont feel too good on the face).

Lastly the subject of this convo, the Dovo Prima 5/8" full hollow. I am on the fence if its better than my first honing. Hair came off effortlessly and no ill feeling. No pulling or fighting. All that should be taken with a huge grain of salt, I could possibly dry shave in a bowl of broken glass and neither feel it or get burned by it, or wet shave with one of them volcano rocks until baby butt smooth. Either way, I can never be a honemeister because my face would not accomodate a proper shave test. Shave me fine, send it off to someone more sensitive and they look like wind up spending a week looking like ground beef.

Allright, I know something is missing. I completely forgot to do a post dry CH12K inspection. I am really curious about what it does on the edge level. The good news, I didn't destroy my mostly complete edge on the plastic guard of the microscope! It has been fun and I shall try and do another dry touch up and follow up with an inspection report.

Razor: 5/8 Griffon bargain bin: smiling, warped, uneven hone wear
Bk'd on DMT 325 then 45 degree spine raised, 20 degree, 3 layers tape, 1 layer tape
King 1k: 45 degree spine raised, 20 degree, 3 layers tape, 2 layers, 1 layer
Norton 4/8
Final polish: 80 PHIG w/slurry
Hone stroke: heel lead start with swooping & rolling X
20 linen 10 leather
Shave: Superlative

At 100x magnification anyone run into their PHIG polish looking similar to Norton 4k frost?

Originally Posted by AndrewK

Razor: 5/8 Griffon bargain bin: smiling, warped, uneven hone wear
Bk'd on DMT 325 then 45 degree spine raised, 20 degree, 3 layers tape, 1 layer tape
King 1k: 45 degree spine raised, 20 degree, 3 layers tape, 2 layers, 1 layer
Norton 4/8
Final polish: 80 PHIG w/slurry
Hone stroke: heel lead start with swooping & rolling X
20 linen 10 leather
Shave: Superlative

At 100x magnification anyone run into their PHIG polish looking similar to Norton 4k frost?

Man, it sounds like that razor took a lot of work..

and, yes, I found that my CNat seemed to regress somewhat, but the more polishing I gave the stone the better it got. Starting with slurry and working to clear water, then a lot of laps on just clear water seemed to produce a glazed edge.

I believe your assumption is correct, though I didn't have that high of mag to look at it with.

Whew, going from a BK to a finished shave, lots of work!!

Good job man!

M

Originally Posted by mjhammer

Man, it sounds like that razor took a lot of work..

and, yes, I found that my CNat seemed to regress somewhat, but the more polishing I gave the stone the better it got. Starting with slurry and working to clear water, then a lot of laps on just clear water seemed to produce a glazed edge.

I believe your assumption is correct, though I didn't have that high of mag to look at it with.

Whew, going from a BK to a finished shave, lots of work!!

Good job man!

M

Thanks It was a great learning experience. Raising the spine to bring the bevel back and working it down to 1 layer of tape really speeds things up but the process still requires ample time.

This time I enjoyed working it w/slurry. I found it lubricated things nicely and because it seems so fine and talc-like I wonder if it actually compensates for the DMT 325 finish left behind by filling in the voids a bit. Next time I shall try a 1k polish on the stone and see how I like it!

Played around with "my" PHIG for couple hours this morning and seems it polishes best DRY. Atleast under magnification. HHT was better. Will find out on the shave tonight. Perhaps mine is a little soft, cause any water or slurry just takes edge down hill from norton 8k. But dry looks very promising.

Originally Posted by JimBC

Played around with "my" PHIG for couple hours this morning and seems it polishes best DRY. Atleast under magnification. HHT was better. Will find out on the shave tonight. Perhaps mine is a little soft, cause any water or slurry just takes edge down hill from norton 8k. But dry looks very promising.

Hmmm, reminds me, I never did try a shave right off the DMT EEF. Well I will try to take note and try that for honing #3.