Thread: First e-bay razor :)

Nice save on that one, from what I can see it looks fine now. I bet it's gonna be a nice shaver once you get it properly honed.

ThanksYeah it looks a bit better than id originally did anyway! I honed it again just now and seems quite sharp. One strange thing I noticed while honing actually is that it seemed to cut arm hair with far less effort off the norton 4k than the 8k!! Why would this be? Made no sense to me! Also here are some close ups for those that are interested, took them with a USB microscope:

Looks like there is some micro chipping on the edge, looking at the last pic unless its some super magnification.

Yeah the magnification is 500x so it probably looks worse than it is. Nevertheless it could do with some more honing if say. I am waiting on my belgian coticule which should be here soon so maybe that will give it a nicer edge. I'll post another pic when I give it a shot. What do you reckon from the magnified pics though? Does it look like normal steel? I kinda think it does but I'm no expert.

Looks like normal steel to me, you probably need to set the bevel you can do that on norton 4k, just dont leave the 4k until the razor shaves arm hair easily, then you can move on to 8k and so on. The reason im suggesting the 4k is because some razors dont respond well to norton 1k and cause micro-chipping.