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02-29-2012, 02:07 AM #21
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02-29-2012, 02:19 AM #22
I decided to try again tonight, but quickly lost my focus and went into a "hone rage". I was just honing like crazy, not really paying attention to what I was doing. I reigned myself in after a little but am now totally off track with what I was doing with this razor. So for now I think I am done with this stone. I'm not giving up on it entirely but I'm going to take a break from it. I'm learning too much with regular honing, to just lose my focus and spend so much honing time on this coticule. So tomorrow, I'm going to hone this razor on my usual progression and I think it will turn out just fine. In a few days/weeks, maybe I will try the stone out for it's original intended use: as a finisher to be used after 8k. Hopefully that will work out, if not I will just put it away again or maybe even sell it.
----Michael
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02-29-2012, 02:22 AM #23
Hey, Alex.
My Dressante is very hard, very slow - opposite of the LPB. If I start on the lpb, I'll do 25-30 circles, then 2-5 x-strokes, repeating w/ less pressure each cycle. I only need slurry on the LPB if the steel is really hard, adding 1-3 drops of water at each cycle. This us just building the keenness. When TPT feels very keen all along, I'll switch to the Dressante w/ med light slurry. The Dressante requires the slurry to pick up where the LPB left off. This was the big game changer. The Dressante doesn't seem to dry very fast for me, but if it did, I'd be adding 1-2 drops at each cycle.
It must be a severe sickness. 'Honed blade 308 today and I'm sitting here wondering if there's anything else I can hone tonight.
'Appreciate your sharing your thoughts and techniques, Alex.
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03-10-2012, 04:34 PM #24Honed blade 308 today and I'm sitting here wondering if there's anything else I can hone tonight.
I've recently been experimenting with a method that incorporates a sort of mini dilucot (fully set bevel, straight to water, make a 1% milk slurry, dilute to water, and finish) It seems to give consistently good edges, I know there's something else that the coticules doing that I'm not seeing though.
I have a theory that a smoothed out bevel can be sharpened further than a bevel straight from thick slurry to finish, I can't try it now(ran out of razors to hone) but, the next variation I'm going to try is Gary's mini dilucot: set bevel -> water, then-> thinner bevel setting slurry(in between semi skimmed milk and 1% milk slurry) -> back to water-> finish
Currently it feels like sharpness is added before water by the slurry while smoothness is added by the thin slurry afterwards, so I'm going to see what a bevel setting slurry does to a smoothed bevel then back to water.
After the first method the razor is as smooth as a butter knife, to be honest I couldn't get a violin from the HHT, but it shaved VERY comfortable and pretty damn close, but it can be closer. I had to check it was removing hairs it felt that dull, very strange feeling.
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03-17-2012, 01:17 AM #25
Absolutely OCHD, and SAD to boot (skills acquisition disorder).
Blade 317 last night.