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Progress. I reground both sides, honed, stropped, got a better shave. Still too rough, and (very) uncomfortable against the grain on the moustache. BUt...progress.

Now, I'm making an error and...

I agree. I used to fix old chisels. Damn near every good, old (but I repeat myself) chisel you find at yard sales and ebay are bellied. Which is probably why they are 100 years old and not 1"...

I think there are three tools here that apply:

1. An arkansas or ceramic round 'file'.
2. A razor doctor
3. A new razor.

I'm leaning towards 2, 3, or regrinding.

I see how the rolling x will solve the 'smiley' side, but how does it solve the 'frowny' side?

Do you see the Thiers Issard picture, or not that one either? Curious if it's a photobucket issue.

So I figured it out during the process of taking pics. I put a flashlight down onto a piece of white stone top, and put the razor on that to see if I could get pictures of where the light came...

Yes, I'll get some pics

Yes, that's correct.

Stone: 2 things. First, it gives truly superlative edges on other tools. It takes longer, but give edges that are, for example, better than the .25 micron diamond film sold...

You know, I chuckle every time I hear 20 and 30 somethings referring to 'the global economy' and 'things are different now' and 'the interconnected world'. The Greeks were trading tin with Celts as...

By the way, my jnat collection consists of an aoto, a Ohira suita that suspect is an 8k ish stone, and a few 'finishers'. I'm thinking of using that sequence prior to devolving to the shaptons. I'm...

Brighty, thanks and that's what I'll today. I was able to shave with it succesfully this morning... but 'successful' is not 'comfortable'.

Also tried something else new this morning, and...

I can appreciate this. With my other tools the move from synthetics to jnats was a learning curve. As was the move from arky stones to synthetics. It's why I'm asking questions so aggressively: ...

When you say shaving @ 4k do you mean "bald patches on the arm"?

Also, back before we had synthetics, what was the honing sequence people used? I'm thinking of course of all those clean shaven...

Well, I'll try the stropped edge tomorrow. If it's not great, I'll try a synthetic 8k and let you know.

So strange to me. With every other edge tool I have, stropping positively degrades the...

Gents, as I posted in another thread I'm trying to 'touch up' a formerly shaving razor. I'm using what a very good JNAT...and it just ain't working for me. Most frustrating for me is that I can...