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OK gents, so I have now honed three razors from nothing up to s "shave ready" edge, and I am getting a better sense of these hones.

Right now, this is what I think...
The good:
When fresh, they...

Gentlemen, as I feared the smile defeated me on that 2nd razor. The heel and toe just weren't keen enough. I'll have to go back and "tune in" the bevel, I think. BUT....the center was right there....

OK folks, here's the story.

Last night, I took the Rongin razor I've been fighting with--the one I wasn't able to get a bevel on, the one that TAUNTED me with its dullness...and I took it to the...

Gentlemen...I'll have to give it more time. I'm afraid to say what I want to say, for fear of the ensuing poostorm, but I will try to encapsulate my feelings about my first 99% pure pasted strop...

That's excellent...I've just got in my diamond paste and was going to ask about application. The paste in the photo is me mixing oil with some powder--winging it, as it were. But that's good...

Sorry mates, I've been a bit busy with other things, haven't got the 3K up and running yet.

Chris, I was stropping all the way except on the stubborn razor, where I tried some circles. It...

Oh, yeah...actually I was just confused by your successful light jazz career. :o Sorry about that.


Ahhhh, yeah...paulownia. That's what they make the razor boxes out of, isn't it? I forgot...

Here's the strop after the above bevel work. Pretty dark...problem with swarfing, do you reckon?

Well, as I mentioned in this thread, I got hold of some coarse honing powders (400, 1K, 1.5K and 3K) and I got it in my head to see how they'd do in lieu of hones. I tried the first one out today. ...