Thread: some new stuff

Nice haul. I am not a DE user but some of them make for beautiful display pieces.

Nice! Top-flights are amazing shavers. The cheap scales always need to go, IMO.
The DE looks choice and the stone is intriguing. With no oil on it, I think a good sign?

I've recently come to accept the fact that I won't always have the time for a SR shave, so I've been using DEs more than in the past. As a result, I've suddenly picked up a bunch of new DEs, I'm not exactly sure how that happened..... I've got some old Rotbarts in the mail coming from Theoman, they should be in my mailbox any day now.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Nice haul. I am not a DE user but some of them make for beautiful display pieces.

Those Rotbarts are neat-looking.

I have a 59 adjustable fatboy. It shaves great gave 3 bucks for it.

I now have 2 Top Flights, one 5/8" & a 6/8". I need to hone the 6/8" but the 5/8" is like velvet!

I cleaned the old slurry off the stone today and inspected it more closely. It has some interesting mottling. When I scratch it with my fingernail it feels super fine.

As you can see it's dished, but after flattening it I should have a little less than 1cm left, which should last the rest of my lifetime.

I flattened this new stone on Monday, and decided to hone my main practise razor, a Boker King Cutter. It had already been honed on Naniwa 1, 3 & 8, and then a coticule, but I wasn't crazy with the results. So I gently killed the edge, made a slurry and went to town. The stone was a joy to use, I love the size! I'd only had one honing session before where I had felt the sticky sensation that I've heard so much about, with my Hoshi Tombo 6000 on a coticule, and it was barely perceptible. But the King Cutter on this big stone got super sticky! So sticky that I had no choice but to stop at a certain point. After that, I took it to Chromium Oxide, then linen and then leather.

I shave tested it tonight, and the shave was fantastic. Very keen, very smooth. With my honing to date, I've had trouble getting what I consider to be a truly shave ready edge. Usually it's pretty good up until the AGT pass, where it becomes obvious that the edge needs to be more keen. There have been a few instances where I've achieved the keenness I've wanted but the edge was super harsh. But this razor/stone combo gave me a beautiful BBS 3-pass shave with zero irritation.

When I was visiting VintageSmurf I really hesitated a lot over buying this stone, but now I'm very happy I bought it!