Yea, I don't do ATG from my lower lip to jawline on my chin.
Bob
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Yea, I don't do ATG from my lower lip to jawline on my chin.
Bob
Im sorry if I sounded whiny that was not my intention lol. What I'm trying to do is get a continuing log of what I'm doing with good feedback that way I know what I'm doing wrong and what is normal. So far it seems like everything I've been doing is pretty normal. by the way one of those wtg passes was a beard thinner so the razor wasn't actually touching my face.
the reason I did two wtg passes was that I seem to have two types of beard hairs. there are brown ones that most people would consider normal beard hair i guess and then i have blonde ones that are kind of hard to see. after the first pass most of the brown ones where gone but apparently the blonde ones only got knicked off halfway. Im still confused as to how that happened. anyways they became shorter with the second pass but didn't actually dissapear until an xtg pass.
I don't know why I tried ATG besides curiosity honestly
If and when you get a truly shave ready razor I think your results will be much better .... IMHO
If the razor isn't touching your face, how long is your beard!? Unless you have 3/4 of an inch of hair hanging off your face, "shaving" without the blade touching your face, isn't shaving. Usually when people talk about a thinning pass, it's just a WTG. And I have to agree with Jimmy on this, that razor isn't really shaving sharp. When you get one that is, you will be blown away at the difference. It will be a world apart.
Well dang. I wonder why Larry said it was patina then... How easy would it be to remove it? Like I mentioned before, I was able to remove a lot of it when I first got it just by using polish and a rag. I bet I could remove a lot more by using something more abrasive. Any suggestions?
I dont know that you could remove all that with a rag and compound. I would almost think at that point, you're probably going to need some sort of emery paper to get that off and then go through a process of buffing and polishing to get it all shiny and smooth again.
Removing the discoloration can be done with high grit sandpaper and polishing compound. It shouldn't be hard.
If there is any pitting under the discoloration it will be much more difficult.
Black rust and patina are different variants of the same thing. The metal has formed a black iron oxide (Fe3O4) - it is the same oxide in both cases...
"Patina" generally refers to a shallow oxide layer that covers the entire razor (or at least almost all of it, other than areas where the oxide has worn away, such as at the tang). Patina happens naturally as carbon steel ages.
"Black rust" is deeper, and more localized, typically the result of prolonged exposure to an acid.
I've got a razor that looks similar to that and it won't polish out anymore with a rag and paste. It's gotta go back to something with more grit to come clean. And just from the pictures and seeing it compared to mine, that's where my answer is coming from.
No flaws?
No flaws?
And patina?
You must be talking about a different razor somehow.
Because the one I am looking at is covered in rust. RUST, not patina.
And for having no flaws it has an awful lot of pitting.
If that razor was sold sight unseen as having 'no flaws' I cannot say anything else than that you have been scammed.