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A big thanks to Euclid and his advice to me in post #33. Yesterday I managed to gain the success I was hoping for. I discovered the pressure needed to cut steel with my King on water alone. Two...

This CH Laurent is a 5/8 full hollow. I'm a bit concerned that if I use [too much] pressure, I'll flex the blade and just widen the bevel instead of flattening the existing bevel. Is that why you...

I found some time this weekend to put much of the advice given to use. After relapping the King, I spent at least an hour doing circles on water. I don't think I made much progress; there was not...

Thanks for the links Tristan. Mine looks more like the second one, like wood grain with a little bit of blue. Mine doesn't seem to be 'moderate' on slurry though. I have only the CH Laurent and a...

I assume that my La Grise with slurry is faster than the BBW with slurry, correct? That is why I use the coticule for bevel setting. I do the dilucot on the BBW because somewhere I read I would get...

What do you use to raise the slurry? Coticule, diamond stone? On the 1K stone, do I want King slurry, or a finer coticule slurry? Do I need to worry about contaminating my coticule slurry stone...

Thanks to all who replied. The razor actually came from a vendor in Germany, who was selling on the French Ebay site, go figure. It wasn't really cleaned up much; it looked like it had been sitting...

I bought a very lightly used CH Laurent 5/8 full hollow off ebay.fr quite a while ago. I have another identical razor I got from a member here and have enjoyed shaving with it. It came with a...