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Kees,

Excellent. I assume this means you tried it and it seemed to help. It sounds like your on your way to perfecting this process. Congrats!

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Yes, sir. I use a number two pencil. I have found that charcoal pencils seem ineffective. I must clarify though that #2 pencil is used out of convienence.

Correct, my apologies for missing this question.

Kees,

I'm not sure I follow your question. I take a razor fresh off an 8K stone. Then I apply graphite using a regular piece of paper to my strop. I fold the page twice and then I rub a pencil...

Kees,

This is one of the few contentious areas of SRP where, after I describe what I do, sometimes the conversation veers off into warnings about how my razor will explode, the strop will catch...