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Actually at this point I'm resigned to my fate. So I have to touch it up every 3 shaves. That's not so bad. I'm getting pretty fast at it from all the practice!

Update: the Chinese 12K is not...

Well, the results are in. 20 x linen + 50 x leather before each shave slows the deterioration somewhat--shave #3 is still BBS--but I can still feel some deterioration in that the blade doesn't glide...

Hmmm. I'll keep that in mind.

I just put a microbevel on my full hollow W&B chopper. The first shave is promising. I can tell that the blade is less sharp; it now has a sort of two-bevel knife...

When it comes to my beard, anything except adamantium-reinforced kryptonite is too fragile & crumbles.

I like the idea of the micro-bevel. I'm going to try that with one of my full hollows (so I...

I've tried it. It seems to be a more aggressive burnisher than leather, but by the time the leather stops working, the blade's so far gone that the linen only gets me one extra shave, 2 at most. I...

No, Matt, Cr02 works once or twice, then it starts rounding my bevel.

Glen, I've been doing all this with my new 15/16 W&B wedge. After I set the bevel & honed from scratch, it was wonderfully...

Do you think a chainsaw would look good in cocobolo? :D



HA! Yes, life is too short for cheap wine, ugly women, & dull razors :D

My beard is the steel-eating monster from the blackest nightmare depths of hell. It eats razors for breakfast. It will eat one of my edges in 5 shaves. It will eat one of Glen's edges in 8 shaves. I...