Thread: Silver steel underdog

Good news: It gave me pretty close shave last night! The blade has the typical feel and sound of Sheffield wedges.
Bad news: It is not keen enough, yet; not on par with my better razors. And I scratched it a bit during the sharpening process.

I set the bevel with 800 King Samurai hone and two layers of electrician's tape on the spine. The tape is a source of grief for me - as it wears out, it is hard to maintain the flatness of bevels. When I'd removed enough metal, I added one more layer to form the second bevel, did a few laps on the 800 hone and then moved on to Conk's Arkansas stone and then to 8k Shapton. Double bevel seems to be good for this near-wedge with so much material removed from the toe.



PS: Perhaps this thread should be moved to the Workshop forum?
PS2: Attached pictures look like crap here, much worse than linking them from some external site.

Here is a picture of the edge w/ double bevel taken with my super cheap macro setup (DSLR, lens reversing adapter ($8), manual ancient 2.8/29 lens ($20))


Here is a link to a larger size: Picasa Web Albums - Petr - Razors