Thread: Honing of wedge blades for lathercatchers

Received my blades back from Mike (Modine)... what an excellent job he did for me on these!! Had my first shave with one this morning using my STAR "Victorian" lather-catcher razor and got an excellent, close shave. The feel of the blade was definitely different from the modern single-edge blades, but I believe it gave a closer shave even though I only did two WTG and one XTG pass. Getting the angle down was a little tricky but not too bad as I got no nicks or cuts. Very enjoyable shave from a 100+ year old razor and blade. Thanks again, Mike
Cleave

Very nice. Thanks for this post I learned something and the old beauties are back in service. I like that.

It helpse to keep a shallow angle when shaving with the Lather Catchers IMO. SRP member Geezer has quite a collection of these beautiful razors. Here is the progression used, I hope this may help. Enjoy.
MIke

bevel set w/ Chosera 1K


unknown natural stone approx 3K


Asagi J-nat


Oozuku j-nat


cont:..

Final finish on brown thuringian-esque w/oil


1 layer of tape had been applied.


no shave test conducted, visual inspection only..

Nice Work, Modine!