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Catching up, hope you all made good use of the Memorial Day weekend, we spent it on the lake..

Yesterday on the hones..

Chosera -1-5-10 ladder progression into a few different finishers
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Having a bit of fun
One on One with Tamahagane Kamisori
Chosera 1-5-10 into my Nakayama with Kita slurry
Used a variable ratio on it
1k = 7:1
5k = 5:1
10k = 3:1
Nakayama =1:1
Took a little...

Whole lotta bevel setting this morning
You are never so good that a Magic Marker Test isn’t useful
Naniwa Chosera/Professional 1k for the win

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A few special customs came to visit snowy North Idaho this week

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This one, an AiAi from Japan is just so sweet finished on my...

Dubl Ducks and a Blue/Green Escher following the 1-5-10 Choseras
A match made in heaven for SMOOTH


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Hone On Gents !!!

Chosera/Professional 1-5-10 onto a Nakayama with Kita slurry for a beautiful Haze /Kasumi finish

Had to correct for the 14.6° bevel angle with 3 layers of 700 3M bringing it to just at 16° that...

Yep, I need more coffee

But I do get to test a new Slate this morning too so there is that

Playing around with one of my personal Tosuke Kamisori today
Trying a Naniwa SS 12k with a light slurry to see how close I can get to a J-nat edge feel

Basically using all the tricks I would use...

Dear Dovo,

Enough already with your "cute" honing routine, just stop already
Not only you can't hit "shave ready" with most all of them you are putting frowns in them too

This is simply wrong,...

Okay I guess it is going to be one of "Those" days on the hones

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NOT "Shave Ready"

Sink vs Kamisori

Guess who won :(

Looks like some work to be done on this Kamisori, :p

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There is no more an issue with Repeating it than there was figuring it out the first time, in fact now that the bevel was corrected it is easier

ie:

Mike read the bevel and the spine figured...

Great explanation of "Tape tricks" Mike :rock:

Testing a couple of Coticules this cold North Idaho morning for a friend in Southern Idaho :p
I love testing different stones to see what is out there

French & Sheffield razors

The Bout is a...

Wicked Sharp

Full Shapton System for the Two NY Americans and the Dovo Inox

I always forget just how easy this system is to use :)

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ShefWorks - Near wedge

Suuuurrrrrre Give it to Glen, he'll hone anything :)

You know as I was honing this one, I thought to myself about those people that say, "Well back in the day they just...

These two stood out from the pack last night

So well behaved on the hones, perfect small even bevels gotta love it

Chosera 1-5-10 Blue/Green Escher finish with misty slurry
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Chosera/Pro 1-5-10 to get them all in line


Gotta love me some minty LeGerlot razors finished on my Blue/Green Escher

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Old Turner near wedge that needed a Bumpity Bump bevel smoothed...

A few interesting ones from the last couple of days


I haven't ever seen this one outta Sheffield before, but I finished it on my Coti using the "Smashed Slurry Technique" really nice outcome
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Hmmmmmmm Honing razors and watching a Milla baby Marathon

Can it get any better ???


I don't think so :p


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Done Right :)


Sweet Sweet Sweet I love customs that are done right (and many are not)

Balanced, Easy to strop, Welds that lead to a solid even bevel :tu Charlie


Chosera 1-5-10...

watching TV late last night figured I would get these two done :)

Korrat with some edge dings all worked out on a Chosera 1k -5-10 the finished on my Zulu with a misty slurry

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Adventures in honing hehehe

Some fun on this one

Had to go with 2 layers of tape to finally get it to hold a nice fine edge, I killed the edge 3 times at the 5k level then once again at the 10k level finally finished with...