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Shave report is in the SOTD forum. But I will say that the evident hardness during the hone was verified during the shave, this blade is extremely hard and maintained a hair-popping edge all the way...

My lovely and totally cool wife gave my the new production 6/8 Henckels Friodur tonight. Photo is here, for those who need to see it.

It seemed a bit harder than the Crowley Friodurs, more in...

Like Randy, I don't use pressure on refreshes, only for more major honing work.

I use pressure at the beginning of each grit, tapering off to none at the end. I don't use the pyramid system so I don't know how pyramid honers handle friodurs; maybe Randy can address this.
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Or send it out to a honemeister and let him do it...

Friodurs are some of my favorite razors, I think this one makes five for me (4/8 - 8/8).

As to the honing, have you ever tried shaving with yours? The HHT isn't some oracle. A razor can fail...

Just got my new production 6/8 Henckels Friodur from cutleryandmore.com. It's not my anniversary yet, so the wife won't let me have it yet, but I got to fondle it for a few minutes.

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