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Utopian, But how do you tell from razor to razor. I have three grades of Arkansas translucent very hard, black hard and a soft. Then I have the Norton water stones four grades up to 8000.

Hirlau. Wade Butcher. I have one, actually just the blade, a wide sucker. Sharpened it and thought I had it sharp. Shaved last night, but the shave was a B***h. Had to finish up with a dollar...

tcidershd. What does it say about a SR if you can't get a dozen shaves from the blade. Pre shave I will use my Franz Swaty hone for a few strokes, up to ten, or I will strop it linen then leather...

Wolfpack34. Boy! Do I ever agree with that statement! How do you know when to stop honing?

The only, only way I know to evaluate a piece of steel is to put it to a grinder and not the spark tail. The tail tells the tale! Am I going to put my razors to a grinder to look at the tail? Ha!

gssixgun, You mention multiple layers of tape to achieve sixteen degrees. First what do you use to evaluate the angle from spine to blade? Then how do you determine the number of layers of tape...

Hone Damage! I have used a straight razor nigh on 40 years and a majority of those years I had no idea how to hone the blade. I started with diamond hones, shave, and it was s _ _ t. Went to...

How many strokes do you give on the polish stone. I run 100 slow even strokes. Is this more than necessary. Then I go to the strop, linine side with food grade pumice on the linine and finish on...