Thread: Puma FBU

Almost forgot. Picked this up today as a bit of a gamble. Has a minor issue I think I can correct with honing. Still has the stickers on the back side of the scales. Doesn't show much if any signs of use.

As far as I am concerned that is from the very top shelf of straight razors.

I am being stupid careful honing this right now. It had a vertical hairline in the bevel that did not travel up into the meat, hence the gamble. Any misplaced pressure and it would be toast. I put a layer of tape on and fed it very carefully to a shapton glass 500 as it eats metal fast and is wide to spread load. I THINK I am free and clear... Stressful... if this razor were a painting, it would be in the Louvre on merits alone... Kid gloves.

glass 500>1k>4k>rouge du salm>coti so far. Will move onto a finer coti and then a barber's delight. I figure it is a razor worth an extravagant progression.

Getting close. All seems well. Steel on this reminds me of dorko a bit. Seems a touch harder than normal solingen

Well, that's as sharp as I know how to make a razor. Just needs to make it past the strop ok.

Originally Posted by kcb5150

Just needs to make it past the strop ok.

it'll need to be able to do this everytime you use it, naturally - I've never heard of honing back past a hairline crack but here's to good fortune!

Probably the wrong choice of words. More like what was probably a chip that became a slight split but it was literally in the bevel alone. It never rode up. I had a stainless solingen like this once and it honed through. This made it off the strop fine with no issues btw.

I think one goof the way it was would have been a disaster and it would have traveled.

The other thing it could have been was someone fed it to an inappropriate hone at some point that left an awfully deep random scratch in the bevel which compromised it as there were a couple of other stray scratches that weren't so precarious but similar.