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In this case I presumed that a light jointing would be in order, so you could truly say you'd set the bevel not just knocked a working edge down to 1K. But for most other things I'm prone to agree...

I think these are the people mostly targeted by a challenge like this one. Demonstrate for new honers what a clean, well set edge can do. And if they followed through, see what it's capable of doing...

I might take a known good shaving razor and try again with that hone. No dulling just a 1K 'touch up.' But I made 3 trips back to the 1K and I just could not get more than a half inch stroke without...

I tried the 1K earlier in the thread. Gonna go ahead and say I wouldn't wish for anyone else to repeat that experience. The Pro/Kuromaku ceramic set might be the exception to the 1k shave experiment...

Little bit of a late report on the final phase, Kuromaku 12K on the repaired Geneva Cutlery and Cnat on the Gold Dollar. The Gold Dollar shave was about what you'd expect of a Cnat. Keener and more...

Today's shenaniganery: Gold dollar tuned up on the Norton 8K, Geneva tuned up on the Shapton Kuromaku 5K.

First observation with respect to the Geneva and the Shapton 5K: You would be hard...

Continuing with the Gold Dollar - I shaved the right half of my face with the 4K this morning. It tugged a little bit, I suppose this is why we say the general rule of thumb is 8K for a comfortable...

I'm very much guilty of getting to this phase at 1K and thinking to myself, "Good enough. I'll clean it up on the 4K..." I know there shouldn't be any white shiny visible when you're done with the...

I have 5 at the moment that have been honed on old barber hones, stropped on nothing but linen and leather. Performance varies some, but I've come to the conclusion folks a hundred years ago knew how...

I liked that idea so much I borrowed it. When I finally re-honed that 8K blade it was killed on the side of a Swaty and brought back to shaving form on the same. Bevel set to shaving form on nothing...

Yep, when I did the 1K shave last I also did a 4K shave. Also spent 6 months shaving with just 1 blade honed on the Norton 8k, then kept it that way as a control when I started experimenting again. ...

Shave completed. Took 2 passes, normally I get it in one. Little bit of tuggage here and there, but really not all that bad. Alcohol based aftershave didn't burn, no real irritation after the shave....

You know it's funny, that's how I feel about my Shapton Kuromaku 12K. Lighter is better...

I don't remember razor burn being an issue from last time. But I do remember the blade tugging more than...

You would post this 10 minutes after I've shaved. Welp...

Done it before. But it's been a while and surely I've gotten better at this game since. I'm game to do it again. In fact I'll do it twice,...