Thread: Wustof 5/8

Your before and after stropping pictures are interesting to compare. Besides the "rounding" of the back edge of the bevel, in the before pictures, the scratches are perpendicular to the edge. In the after picture, the scratches are considerably off perpendicular. Did you hone straight and strop at a considerable angle? I tend to do the opposite, though I don't use pastes.

Originally Posted by mbhodges

Ah-ha! You are the one I was having the bidding war with over this beauty. Looks great! Hope you enjoy it. Let me know how it shaves.

Wasn't me you were having a bidding war with. I simply swooped in at the last minute with the winning bid! I only bid once on it.

Originally Posted by SteveS

Your before and after stropping pictures are interesting to compare. Besides the "rounding" of the back edge of the bevel, in the before pictures, the scratches are perpendicular to the edge. In the after picture, the scratches are considerably off perpendicular. Did you hone straight and strop at a considerable angle? I tend to do the opposite, though I don't use pastes.

I hone it straight up and down. I used the chrome ox strop at an angle, and then the canvas and latigo (3" artisan model strop) were straight up and down again.

Next time I think I'll skip the chrome ox and see what kind of difference just the linen and latigo makes to the edge.

Wustof's are horrible, terrible shavers. Worse than Zeepks.

Really. Don't bother bidding on one if it shows up on EBay.













OK, so they actually shave incredibly well!

First couple of shaves with this razor have been top notch.

Refreshed the edge for the sake of experiment, and instead of using hanging strop with chrome ox, went with 0.5 micron lapping film:

Originally Posted by Seraphim

First couple of shaves with this razor have been top notch.

Refreshed the edge for the sake of experiment, and instead of using hanging strop with chrome ox, went with 0.5 micron lapping film:

That is an exceptionally polished bevel. I was going to say that makes me wish I could see mine so that I know what I'm shaving with, but then I thought that mine wouldn't look nearly as nice.

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

That is an exceptionally polished bevel. I was going to say that makes me wish I could see mine so that I know what I'm shaving with, but then I thought that mine wouldn't look nearly as nice.

Having access to a microscope simply leads to being obsessive compulsive about this nonsense.

I had afantastic shave with this razor, and then wanted to take a look at the edge to see where things were at. There were a number of irregularities, tiny little pits and chips along the edge, not at all so nice and even as it looks in this latest image. But the shave was fantastic. But after seeing the edge under the scope I had to give it a touch up to see how "nice" I could get it...

In other words--microscope pics are pretty cool, and very interesting to see what's going on with your edge, but getting anal about having the finest edge possible really doesn't matter all that much.

What I have found to be the best jusge of edge quality is to look at the gleam along the very edge of the razor under a bright incandecent bulb. I look to see that the gleam is small and even along the length of the razor. That had been the best subjective guide of a nice shaving edge so far.