Well another week has passed and we're up to about 7 shaves with each razor. I think two issues are appearing here. First SRP 38 the one getting 30x on the strop is beginning to show the earliest signs of a decrease in the comfort factor. Its not much but its beginning while the other two are as good as the first shave. The other thing is it appears I'm getting more shaves this time around from each razor and I attribute that to the honing on the coticule. One conclusion I would say right now is the coticule is far superior to the Norton 8K as far as edge quality goes. For that matter even the 12K Kitayama did not produce as good an edge.

Stay tunes for further developments. Things should start to get interesting pretty soon.