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Originally Posted by Maxi

JaNORTuary 7th, 2012.

Razor: W&B 7/8 full hollow

Back from the cottage, had a pile of razor stuff sitting at the door. I'll hone them tomorrow....I honed mine tonite.

I took the W&B back to the stones. I did a 1,3,5,3,1,1 pryramid on the 4/8 combo using 5 8k strokes after every number on the 4k side. Then I cleaned the stones, and did water only on the 8k side. Experiment time; 8 forward strokes, 5 back honing strokes, 2 forward strokes (similar to

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Originally Posted by Maxi

It went well. Dovo 5/8. I did two passes. Before the first pass, i did about 60 on webbing, 100 on leather. Between passes I did another 30 on leather.

The shave was pretty good. I had noticed on the final strokes of the last shave that it was just minutely scratchy, which led me to up my stropping count for this one. I felt fine with the razors edge throughout the shave.

I'll be back in the city with my hones and strops in a couple days, so I'll start tweaking the other

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Originally Posted by Maxi

JaNorton Shave #3 went very well. Dovo Best again (I didn't bring the WB to the cottage, b/c I would have needed to bring the stone too...)

Anyway. Nice and smooth, two passes. No discomfort or irritation.

Originally Posted by Maxi

I'm lovin' this. I'm having loads of fun already. Being at the cottage, and not having my hones, I'm concentrating on stropping variations and pressure. What I do know though, is that at 4pm today that 2 pass shave with the Dovo Best from yesterday was still soft and lovely. I shaved again anyway though...just cause I wanted to darnit!

Originally Posted by Maxi

This is my second JaNorton Shave. I'm up at the cottage, and I pare down my stuff when I come up here.

Razor: Dovo Best Quality, 5/8 Round Point
Brush: Omega Boar
Cream: Palmolive Cream
Strop: Homemade traveller, compiled from cut down SRD webbing and a piece of Bridle from Larry A's PIF thread a while back.
A/S: None, I'm at the cottage.

Two pass shave, from a lovely razor honed off the Norton 4/8.

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