Thread: Made For The Army

Very Good Counsel about the tape Tom!

One thing that I always try to do is to make sure that the tape is even on both sides! For me, it seems to help!!

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Very Good Counsel about the tape Tom!

One thing that I always try to do is to make sure that the tape is even on both sides! For me, it seems to help!!

Thanks. For me, it is all about the bevel. Pressing down on places where the bevel is weak will wear the tape and bevel at that point(using circles some) and make the bevel wider at that point. Smoothing out with honing for another look. The straighter and more even and smaller you can get the bevel, the better. Irregardless of what the wear on the tape looks like, the 3rd layer will become the workhorse! Some old dudes honed one side way heavier than the other!

I kind of wish you would have kept yourself banned....I think that was the one I was looking at lol

Originally Posted by sharptonn

No Ed. You got it backwards! Put 2 layers on and wear em in (dmt, 1000) . Get the bevel started a bit that way. Change the top layer as as needed, but finish it out for the nice, clean 1000 with a decent -looking bevel with a worn, intact top layer of tape on the spine. As you rock and roll, you will wear the top tape thin in places and not in others to compensate for that wonky spine.You will be able to see the wear on the tape should be wider in places where the spine was worn little and less where it was worn more heavily if you kept constant and even pressure. This is because you have created a "straight" spine with the unevenly worn tape (at least a staighter one!). Then you have a, hopefully, path to a bevel and can add a 3rd layer with which to start. Hone away and change ONLY the top layer. HINT! Make the top layer longer so it is easier to replace without disturbing the bottom layers! Look at it as angles. If you take away a layer, you are starting over in a bad way as the edge shall not touch the hone. If you add one as you get things straight, you should succeed quickly as fresh steel is applied smoothly to the hone, without hindrance from the spine, nor old, wide bevels.
That! JMO

I WISH there was a DOUBLE THANKS Button!

I did what you suggested and took her for a stropping.
Showered and then made some later with AOS Sandlewood and some Gylserin.
NICE LATER, went on WARM!

Started the shave with NOT SO HIGH HOPES....

HOLY MOLEY! This this shaves G R E A T !
It is FRIGGIN' SHARP also! I got a lil careless and took a nice SLICE into my top lip trying one of those "clean up passes" OUCH!

THANKS SO MUCH for explaining this so a simpleton like me could understand!

Originally Posted by sinnfein

I kind of wish you would have kept yourself banned....I think that was the one I was looking at lol

Did you bid the last 10 seconds?
YEP THAT WAS ME THEN!

Damn, Ed! You did all that fast! It woulda taken me at least 2 hours! Glad it helped!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Damn, Ed! You did all that fast! It woulda taken me at least 2 hours! Glad it helped!

I Guess It Helped I Put A Edge On It Before I Did Any Work To It!

THANKS AGAIN MY FRIEND!

Originally Posted by Chevhead

Did you bid the last 10 seconds?
YEP THAT WAS ME THEN!

i think there was like a minute left when i bid then it got picked up in the last 10 seconds or so lol,

Originally Posted by sinnfein

i think there was like a minute left when i bid then it got picked up in the last 10 seconds or so lol,

Yeah That Was Probably Me.
Sorry About That....

Originally Posted by Chevhead

Yeah That Was Probably Me.
Sorry About That....

no worries I just won another razor tonight. now I'm banning myself