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Thanx guys I'll get to work...
Joe, I didn't see the pic you were referring too but I understand what your saying clearly.

Randy, thanx and I'll send a PM to you

I usually clean it before stropping but I think I may have missed a few times. I've used the linen side to wipe the razor after cleaning too. I may be cross contaminating the leather from prior...

Good experiment, very good shave. I tried to bias the experiment a little against my hypothesis (whatever that is I'm not sure, I suppose that .5 on balsa is good for stropping?). So I took 2...

The black ice is an optical lighting effect that looks just like a keen sharpened razor, like in the attached pic. I don't have a pic of my blade but on mine it is close to the pic with some heavy...

Specs? mmmm, I suppose you guys may laugh a little. I went to a hobby shop and bought a thin (about 2mm thick) piece of balsa wood. The wood was about 3 feet long. I read about this on the old...

So, I have been messing with my microscope and I noticed again and again that my blades had that incredible "black ice" look when I honed on my balsa wood impregnated with .5 paste. Then repeatedly...