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Hi Mike,

No not that I can see with a loupe, the bevel looks flat. A lot of the original kasumi from the jnat appears to be there.too. What’s taken the beating is the cutting edge, the actual...

Shave 153 today. and I’m making an executive decision to call it done. The edge still shaves well enough, but it’s lost enough closeness and smoothness to be close to the point where I ended my other...

Shave #145, the edge is still quite good. I’m a dozen beyond what Alfredo did with his vintage TI, but I am also using fabric/linen where he did not, he used Kanoyama suede and cordovan only.

This...

That would be something. I don’t think that it will make it, but the latest stropping materials seem to be getting a little more smooth back in the edge. Iwasaki said that a barber got 1000 shaves...

Shave #140 on this fine Sunday morning - it won’t stay fine though, heat index of 105F/40C or so is expected. There was a little resistance (but no tugging) on the first pass on 28 hours of beard,...

Shave #135, what can you say except Fillys rule! I had a little extra growth this morning and could tell it WTG, but ATG was normal. The edge seems to be showing a bit more wear and tear under the...

Shave #133 this morning and the edge is good, and equals the number Alfredo got from his TI, so his result is not a fluke. I had previously posted that the edge is actually improving a bit over...

Roo strop and Latvian linen showing thickness.

Shave 130 today, the edge is if anything noticeably better over the last 2-3 shaves. The Latvian linen and roo seem to be helping. Both are very thin and flexible, so tip of the hat to Aaron...

Shave 125 this morning, and it still has a better edge than the Cape and Doble Temple did when I stopped with them. I also checked the edge with a loupe, and it looks surprisingly good; a couple of...

Shave #120 and still rockin’

Shave 115 today with the Sub Cero. It seemed to tug just a little but I had 30h growth and minimal prep and it’s done that before under similar conditions. Alfredo got 133-134 from a vintage TI so...

Shave #109 today with the Sub Cero, today marks a milestone though, the edge is one year old. I honed it on May 24th 2019 according to my honing log, on a favorite hard jnat that does really well...

Shave 100 with the Filly 14 Sub Cero this morning, the edge is still performing well. No pastes or abrasives, maintenance tools are a Tony Miller linen and a 3-piece Kanoyama. Here are some things...

Shave 96 on the Sub Cero, still knocking out DFS,

Thanks tc, 89 this morning, I’m shooting for 10/month with it.

No doubt unless I drop the razor, lol.

Shave #88 with the Filly 14 Sub Cero, the edge is still shavin’ on putting out DFS. The edge has not touched anything but linen, canvas, suede, and leather, no abrasives. The little kiita is...

I’m working on it!

Shave #80 and still going. Not fresh and delivering ‘baby dolphin butt smooth’ shaves, but still kicking out DFS every time. It isn’t tugging (yet), and the edge shows some wear toward the toe, but...

Check out the BST here for razors, nice ones come up often at good prices, and the people selling them are good folks and knowledgeable.

Gold Dollars are a little more sensitive to the finishing hone IMO, but with a good edge they should shave very well. How long is a question that I’d like to answer, but that would require shaving...

75 now on the Filly 14 Sub Cero. It will no longer deliver that powdered BBS shave, but it is knocking out DFS every single shave. Not too shabby, it’s still very comfortable shaving and hasn’t...

Shave #70, still going well. Not freshly honed but if you shaved with it, you’d find it difficult to believe that there are 70 shaves on this edge with nothing but linen and leather maintaining it....

Just for info, I do a 2-pass shave, WTG and ATG, and a dry ATG cleanup pass on my neck, so 65 passes is 130+, maybe the equivalent of 150?

I also checked the edge with a loupe at shave 65, and it...