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    20-30x on plain leather for the first shave to ensure it's right on the money & if it is, follow up with 100x every time. Been chasing edges lately, so I want to feel what is going on before smoothing things out on the leather.
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    Gentlemen, after honing I do 100 strokes on leather — well, I like stropping — and then the shave test.

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    I couple times I have forgotten to strop after stones... Even though my asagi is very smooth and can be shaved off of, the 60 laps on leather just smooths that out to a fantasic shave lol.

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    like most of the previous posters, I do a bit more after honing.
    About 60 on linen and 75 on leather seems to do the trick nowadays.
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    I'm COITENLY no expert, but normally I do my 'standard' 30/70. However, I have shaved 'straight off the hone' (Shapton 16k) (more for the challenge, maybe a bit like gulping Scotch from the bottle, or smoking Camel non-filters) and found it 'interesting'. I guess I also thought it would be a good test of the edge.

    PS, gotta remember to get a loupe, plus another strop so my Dova can become a paste strop, oh, and some paste....

    NOW I know why I should have started straight razor shaving 35 years ago, it's because it's the ONLY way you're going to 'save money' on disposables....
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    Quote Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider View Post
    I'm COITENLY no expert, but normally I do my 'standard' 30/70. However, I have shaved 'straight off the hone' (Shapton 16k) (more for the challenge, maybe a bit like gulping Scotch from the bottle, or smoking Camel non-filters) and found it 'interesting'. I guess I also thought it would be a good test of the edge.

    PS, gotta remember to get a loupe, plus another strop so my Dova can become a paste strop, oh, and some paste....

    NOW I know why I should have started straight razor shaving 35 years ago, it's because it's the ONLY way you're going to 'save money' on disposables....
    I like your sense of humor Carl
    i was wondering how long I will have to shave with these beauties to save myself some money
    Now I have an answer - 35 years - wow that would make me - a great grand daddy
    That is, if my kids get around to doing the deed for real
    Been waiting for first announcement of a grand kid on the way
    Not happening I can tell you
    Maybe they need some kind of DIY manual

    Have a good day mate

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    Yeah, well, 35 years from now (I started in June) will make me 85, achievable, but I'd hate to think of the faces I'd need to be pulling to get taught skin. I think maybe I'd be needing to utilise bull dog clips, sticky tape and dolly pegs to make the skin tight!

    Kids have kids so late these days (like, at 40 when they've 'built their career'). For those of my generation, it always sort of happened BEFORE marriage, at least we were well on the way by then. The positive of that approach is life at home is less boring; could you IMAGINE just you and your 'significant other'!!?? Been thinking of adoption lately to keep things interesting (I'm still into creating progeny, but the wife isn't). Either that or breeding marmosets or something...

    Anyway, yet again Carl is WAYYYYYY off topic...
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    Quote Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider View Post
    Yeah, well, 35 years from now (I started in June) will make me 85, achievable, but I'd hate to think of the faces I'd need to be pulling to get taught skin. I think maybe I'd be needing to utilise bull dog clips, sticky tape and dolly pegs to make the skin tight!

    Kids have kids so late these days (like, at 40 when they've 'built their career'). For those of my generation, it always sort of happened BEFORE marriage, at least we were well on the way by then. The positive of that approach is life at home is less boring; could you IMAGINE just you and your 'significant other'!!?? Been thinking of adoption lately to keep things interesting (I'm still into creating progeny, but the wife isn't). Either that or breeding marmosets or something...

    Anyway, yet again Carl is WAYYYYYY off topic...
    Well kids having kids late is a good thing in my book i see to many parents raising their kids kids, anyway if you shave right of the hones, do you find a difference after your normal stropping routine!!!

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    After honing, I go to 20 on the fabric and then Neil Miller leather. 34 on modified English Bridle with 3 coats oil, the same(34) with 1 coat oil, and 34 on European tallow tanned, oiled and waxed. Smooth Shave! Really Smooth!......get it on...Tom
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    I rest my case.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Martin103 View Post
    ...if you shave right of the hones, do you find a difference after your normal stropping routine!!!...
    Yes, it does feel different, hard to explain exactly how. Try it, you'll see!
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