Thread: CBN On Linen

Not belonging to the flat earth society any longer,I may try the SHC

Nothing touches my linen strops but a straight razor and an earth magnet when the linen darkens enough.

I would not put it on my daily user strop, but if you have some junker linen strops, and want to experiment, I would say go for it. Here is a picture of two linen strops with cbn in on them. I have not used them in years, but pulled them out and tried them before responding to this thread. They both improved a norton 8k edge and resulted in smooth shaves. One strop is the plain powder on linen, the other is a beeswax and cbn mixture. The plain powder on linen one produces a slightly better shave.

A few years ago I was on an abrasive kick, wood ash, rotten stone, chrome oxide, iron oxide, cerrium oxide, news print. Experimenting is a lot of fun.

Now days I pretty much go to my naniwa 12 and a little .5 diamond on hard felt, or a few swipes on my Nakayam kiita hone.

My daily use strops have no paste on them.

Charlie

Ordered the 0.1 officially the other day from Jende! Can't wait to use it w/ my new order of soap etc. from SRD!

Originally Posted by Jimbo

You guys are so behind the times. I've just constructed a SHC (Small Hadron Collider) that fits on my strop.

Thought I heard a big bang coming from a northerly direction.

Spray came yesterday & got around to playing w/ it today--cleaned up a piece of balsa & sprayed it on, then got impatient & sprayed it on my Jnat & worked on a razor that needed a touchup. Hair popping was impressive, but not "silent"--figured the razor needed more, but just for fun, stropped (leather only) & (dry) test shaved a tiny patch of sideburn (maybe 1 square cm total). Only light pulling. Then felt it--BBS from WTG & no prep!!!!!! Very interested in tomorrow's test shave...

Now for an update: this stuff (so far all I've used is balsa, but felt will be forthcoming) bumps up the closeness of the shave about 1 notch above the last thing the razor was finished on prior, but really bumps up the effortlessness of the shave. By far this is most noticeable going XTG/ATG. Long strokes WTG are possible however w/ this stuff (normally I'd never get away w/ that w/o a pulling sensation). My preliminary verdict is this stuff could be unbelievable after something like 0.25 compounds, but it's still pretty amazing off of a Jnat.

Why not try it on your JNat!......blasphemy I know! Just spray it on a cleaned stone when done honing on your JNat and take about 15 for 20 light strokes then look at the bevel.....it will show a diamond white reflection. Shave with it and critique that. Some say that the reflections has nothing to do with a shave but I have noticed that it is referred to by most of the Japanese masters when critiquing a stone.


Later,
Richard

I've done it & found fresh off the hone, it's nice. I'm still just a little paranoid about using the bottle up too quick is all!

That is one beautiful loom strop. Did you make it?

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Loom on Black Latigo.