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I don't know what smiths is, but I've seen a lot of people using arkansas stones fairly dry. They need to have enough oil on them to actually float out particles. I use light mineral oil.

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If you have one of the newer "hard" arkansas stones that still has some bite, a black followed by green chrome will (should at least) make for a very keen edge, as good as anything else.

The opposite of that should occur. If the oil used is thick enough (not a light cutting fluid, but an oil), then the oil should keep swarf from ever getting stuck in pores. It should come out with...

I'm going to irritate you guys with a video. I, for some reason, went on a rash of purchases of japanese NOS razors a couple of months ago. This razor is one of the ones made of the schoeller...

I've done it on several razors. Maybe a dozen (as in from not-used-in-decades to shaving sharp). I have so many stones that I don't ever do the same thing for long, but I don't see any detriment to...