Thread: Really confused with my first wedge like atraight razor shave

Guys i am really confused with a shave i got today with a thick wedge like straight i have restored.

I have been honing for a while now and getting great shaves with straights that i have restored or purchased new.

I use naniwa 1000,Norton 4000/8000 and then chinese 12k(waiting for a Nani 12k)

I get great shaves from all my blades.

Now i have 2 wedge like straights that when i hone i can never seem to get them sharp enough to cut arm hair midway like my other straights to see how my honing has been done.

They seem to just barely cut arm hair off and feel a little sharp when i do the thumb rub test.

I have honed these 2 blades with 1 tape,2 tapes 3 tapes and nothing seems to get them sharp.

So today as a gamble i said let me try one out on a shave and see what it does.

Did the shave test that Gssixgun says to see how it is on one side of my face and it felt like just glide down no feeling of whiskers being cut and that's it.

Now i put my hand against my cheek and it felt SMOOTTHH.

Now you know there isn't that sound of whiskers being cut with a wedge so i wasn't sure what happened.

So i decided let me do a full shave and see where this goes.

Now i did my 3 passes as i always do.WTG,XTG AND ATG.

During all this i felt no hair being cut,felt no tugging got no nicks at all no irritation at all and a BBS SHAVE LIKE ONE OF MY BEST EVER.

Now this is confusing to me this blade did not feel like it should cut like this.

It felt like it was a hot knife going through butter but when i was honing it it did not seem to be anywhere near shave ready as the other blades doing the same process.

Any thoughts on this?



This is the straight i used,a Wadw and Butcher i had restored.