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Daily shower and shave - first shave with this razor, it shaves as well and as smoothly as anything else I've shaved with in 10 years. That's good. Sort of like playing ping pong with a cast iron...

Yes, happy with the shaves (happy to dump wedges to the next person who likes them, though, too). Just curious about other folks and what they've found with this - I find the HHT thing a bit...

One other side comment (maybe I said this in context earlier).

The actual very edge of the razor never looks the same between friodur vs. hard carbon steel. The friodurs always look a little...

I don't use tape. I don't have any true wedges, but if I did, I would use tape, but the last stone always gets a fresh piece of tape to make sure the edge is reached.

The bevel was finished with...

I agree on that, the shave being the most important part of the equation. I do like to use HHT (the hair has to be the same each time, the test performed the same way, etc, to get anything out of it...

I posted this in this section instead of general honing because I don't really wan't beginners' suppositions. Not that I want to exclude anyone, but it's something I've noticed over 10 years.
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