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just started straight razor shaving and love it. Anyways I have a lot of jknives so decided to get a Japanese razor.
I was particularly drawn to the wavy transition on the hagane and jigane on the ura. but I still have no idea if what I bought is a good quality razor. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
Tosuke Inoue Japanese Straight Kamisori Razor in Vintage Paper Wrap 藤助 218A | eBay
Give us a report when you get it.:D
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Originally Posted by 32t
Lol will do.
Looks in great shape to me, congrats.
I assume you are going to hone it yourself?
Take a look at honing videos, the honing technique is not quite the same as traditional Japanese knives.
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Originally Posted by mainaman
Ill take a look but I was going to sharpen as I would a chisel edge jknive with a hollow back. Most of the sharpening is done on the chisel side, and very few strokes on the hollow ura side to preserve the geometry and the hagane.
Kamisori are not chisel ground, both sides are hollow. There are different way to hone as far as stroke count is concerned, 10:1, 10:3, 7:3 (omote:ura) , etcQuote:
Originally Posted by 86azms3
Lately I have been using the Iwasaki method, which I think is close to 3:1 or 2:1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfhh1PSnfxg
There are other great videos out there too.
They are awesome shavers and fun to use. Like Stefan said, once they are tuned up proper.
MIke
Awesome. Looks like Tosuke Kinmoji. You will not be disappointed
Thanks that clears up things for me a little bit. Referencing tosuke and srp would bring up the model with the flat forge welded piece of hagane and the blue rubbery looking handle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Srdjan
Looks like I just have a different model, besides no handle and the wavy pattern forge welded hagane, couldn't find much info.
Ah thanks for bringing the wavy forge line to my attention. I had not noticed at the first glance. That is indeed a Tosuke Kinmoji, I have that same kami. I got rid of the blue handle quickly, didn't care for it at all!
Yep, Inoue Tosuke, great razor. Will take a lovely edge.
I will start at 10:1 then 7:1, 3:1, 1:1 respectively as I go up in grit size.
Tosuke are a good razor so you should have no problem with it. My preferred kamisori honing ratio is 2:1. That seems to work well for me.
Yeah that's pretty much how I hone them, however, that ones never been honed. You may need to do a little extra on the ura to set it.Quote:
Originally Posted by 86azms3
