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Used a Ern Ator

Probably my favorite razor-love those Ators!

Well, I just shaved with the Boker "Our Own Hollow Ground Razor" that I rescaled and posted about on another thread. I started setting the bevel on the Chosera 1k; it was coming along nicely, but I...

Your experience kind of mirrors the epiphany I had a couple of pages back doing this experiment with my Chosera-I literally could not believe what a great smooth shave it was. To your questions about...

I've come to believe that the bevel might be as much as 95-97% of honing.

At his TomoNagura website, in one of his honing posts, Kieth talks about the bevel set as being more of a process that...

GreenRipper-If you got a reasonably close shave off of that 1k, that (along with the other tests you mentioned) is the best evidence that you have a solid bevel. If you must, maybe hit it again with...

Yeah, it was kind of an epiphany in that sense, Ron-Really, why not max out every stone? I know I have often been guilty (maybe moreso in my newbie "formula" honing days) of just saying "Screw it,...

So I decided to go ahead and do this while testing two other razors that I honed on my new surgical black (which I will post about in that thread).

Anyway, I maxed out a Torrey shoulderless in...

No, I am a total girly man, but I've got a couple of restorations I'm working on. I'll finish them up in the next couple of days and try this from my Chosera 1k. It seems like a great way to test if...