I just got this big Helje in yesterday. Tapers from 13/16 at the heel to 7/8 at the toe. On the case it came in (which I'm pretty sure is the original) it is labeled as Heljestrand and MK. The razor itself doesn't have any MK labeling as you can see in the pictures. I thought it'd be an MK 33. Anyone know if this was a later Heljestrand? Are they better, worse, different, or the same as the older ones?

Anyways, it was popping hairs when I got it, so I honed it a bit on a BBW with light slurry, then a coticule with very light slurry, diluted up to a clean coticule and did a buncha laps and finished with an Escher. The shave was nice, but I think I'm gonna run through that one more time to really smooth out the edge. Or I'll wait for a new stone that I just bought...

Sorry for some of the photos being upside down
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