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Those Royals used to bring big money, no idea why or if they still do.

Beautiful scales too !

Hang in there Jerry!

rsbcebu on another forum has one of those and likes it very much I believe. I have one with the same etch but it’s a Bengall and lacks the ivory scales.

TY sir!

That’s pretty much what I do on most everything. And it isn’t working on this one, ROFL! But it may not be the technique as much as just learning how to hone such an odd razor.

It may...

Here’s one that you don’t see too often, a Japanese aural razor, used by a barber to trim hair inside of the ear canal. I always wanted one but new ones in the states are expensive. They’re cheap in...

Working a bit more on the ‘on and off’ project, a nice old Wosty frameback. I lost about a bevel width to small chips and in doing so straightened the edge a bit too much, so yesterday’s job was to...

I’m getting the new Le Grelot Fleur d’Acier blade up and running. I removed the old blade by removing the screw of course, and tapping the back of the heel with a wooden spoon - this would be the...

Scheön Burg frameback, beautifully re-scaled by Stefan aka mainaman, and touched up on Shapton Glass 8k HC, then finished handheld on a nice Nakayama iro hoard koppa from Alex Gilmore. The stone was...

Refreshed my Rugby 1072 on one of Alex Gilmore’s Nakayama hoard koppas. A great piece of stone, and it does not absorb water. I have a couple more like that, and they haven’t been used with oil or...

Love those green scales!

Once you’re above 2k, you can give it a few licks on a strop or your hand and it should pass HHT, getting better with each higher grit - but a loupe is cheap and works better at lower grits.

Up...

Just playing with the stones again, this time a nice mizu asagi (water blue) and my user-grade F14 test razor, tomo is a huge pure asagi from Takeshi. I’ll have a nice fresh edge for the Sunday...

Yes, but it’s actually a 33.

Just a touchup on a single razor with 1mil Kapton. Jnat is a iromono and the slurry stone a kiita, an excellent combo for Swedish steel.

Hey Marty,

That’s my kiita in the video, one of the very first jnats that I bought almost 10 years ago! I still have it.

Cheers, Steve

It did have a small frown near the heel, but the chip removal fixed that. It is frown free now.

7/8 Rodgers Refined Steel, the edge had a few small chips at the heel and up near the toe, just fractions of a mm but the steel is hard. It also had a very slight frown near the heel, which is not...

Thank you Oz, since that post I also tried some slower polishers and they will definitely not remove the N12k finish in 6 strokes on their own slurry.

What you an Sandr say about suita as razor...

Well this has been quite interesting. I’ve tried 4 fast jnats, and TL;DR, the jnats erase N12k finish a LOT faster than N12k erases jnat finish.

I finished a razor to mirror finish on the N12k...

Maybe, I’ll have to give one that I have in mind a try. It will erase 1k Chosera marks over half the bevel with 30 regular razor strokes on it’s own slurry. It will be a fun to see what it can do.

If your jnat is slower than your synth, you don’t have the right jnat - yet, lol. That’s OK though, the main job of any final finisher is to make the feel of the edge IMO.

Unknown maker, surely Sheffield, only marked ‘Superior Temper’. The steel is so hard and fine grained that it took over 2 hours with a slurried Shapton Glass 500 HR to recut the paste-rounded bevels....

Cape 2000, refreshed the edge with a new jnat - and I’m really liking the edge that this stone makes, just a super smooth shaving edge. Progression was 4k Shapton Glass HR to flatten the bevels, 6k...

Long ‘threads’ or lines of corrosion.