Thread: Had a light bulb moment over the past week or so.

Just my Illinois leather

I have been honing mine to 8k on the norton and then stropping. I have a phig and a translucent arkansas and an ultra fine spyderco ceramic I use diamond spray on but I have not seen any real advantage from any of these past he 8k norton.

All I know is that after a lot more stropping they actually shave without pulling and last through a complete shave (at least these two do).

Remeber what I said at the meet in KC, "ya gotta strop the "bejeezus" out of it" after a honing! LOL

For me, after honing it's a minimum of 100 laps. I generally don't stop short of 100 laps even if it's just between shaves. Maybe it's a waste of time, but I have the time to waste, and I like stropping.

One thing that I have learned for sure about SR shaving is this. There are so many variables and so many different ways to skin a cat in this game that I don't know if anyone will ever really nail it all down.

Its probably not my only issue but stropping has been one of my issues. This evening added a SilverKing USA to my rotation out of my dud pile but taking a little more time on the strop. I just finished shaving with it and it did pretty well.

Last few times I tried that particular razor it was quite uncomfortable to shave with.

Ray

Its a fun game Ray! Enjoy it!

You know I am enjoying it Nun2sharp. There are times when things got frustrating. Now that I have enough razors up and running to shave with regularly, I have those aside as my "rotation" and all I have to do is strop those to keep them going for a while.

Now I feel like I can set back and afford a little more head scratch time on the ones that have been giving me fits. I'm slowly working it out. Of course I still have a lot to learn and a lot of experience to gain but I feel like I am at that over the hump point now. There is a certain amount of satisfaction in being at that point.

Ray