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Is there really no one willing to do the initial experiment?
(honing a razor with a progression on all the Shapton hones and performing an HHT at each stage).

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Thanks to everyone for sharing...

Hey Howard,

Nice info, thanks for contributing. Yes I saw Zowada's photos. I tried dry honing, but did not liked the results as much.
Another thing I have been trying, is to backhone on slurry...

Russel,

What you describe is what I believe to be the foundation of "the progressive honing method". From the very beginning it always made the most physical sense to me, so I have learned to...

It is true that I felt a bit patronized by your reply. But I have a great appreciation for your knowledge about all things steel and sharp and your willingness to share with others. I think we have...

Icedog,

Thank you very much for your reply. I like your pictures! I can see you enjoy the virtue of quality tools:). Actually the tomato cutting analogy was just a bad attempt to be funny, which...

Russel,

For your convenience, I repeated my experiment and took pictures. The razor was a Pearson&co. I hope that will be satisfactory. I picked my vintage coticule to do the laps. In my first...

The Coticule's enigmatic behavior is part of my reason for creating this thread.

My own experience is this: If I raise slurry on a coticule, any coticule so far, I'm almost certain to loose...

Thanks for all the replies so far, gentlemen.

It seems this has boiled down a bit to a discussion about the HHT, which was not really my intention. My original goal for starting this thread is to...

We're on the same page, Russel. The idea may sprout that I over emphasize on the HHT, but I ''m really only considering it for the sake of the experiment.
The premise is this: If striations offer a...

I hate tomatoes...

Well, actually I love them and digest them in some form almost daily, but I also hate them, 'cause they embarrass my high-end Wusthoff kitchen cutlery. Unless I freshly hone and...