Thread: British Steel, 7 day Acronym set, in progress.

well done Mike puts my set to shame! wish i had your skills going into my set. fantastically done my friend

Absolutely awesome set
love the complete set up and the engravings just finish them off spot on
great idea with the made in 1900 rebuilt in 2015 in the box also
top shelf mate

Cheers gents, and thanks. Learn from you all as I hope some of my stuff lends ideas back.

Just got some thuri's so two of them will be finished on these new, to me, stones.

Thank you for a totally awesome trip through time to the present, by way of your shop skills!

I enjoyed and learned from the threads!
~Richard

They are just S.T.U.N.N.I.N.G!

Incredible work. Beautiful 7 day set. It's threads like this this that make me feel more adventurous to try my own projects. That set gives me something to aspire to.

Feels really quite good to think that this thread may help others to take the plunge on some restores.
Thanks all for the feedback, truly appreciative of your kind words and observations on the work.
I have just finished honing all 7 days and test shaved two days growth in sections with all 7. Was a two pass shave where I used all seven on different facial areas either with or against the grain over the shave.
Happily, and surprisingly they all passed the test enough to go into rotation for full shave reviews. Surprising because I still struggle achieving a good edge by my own hand on British thicker blades, or I did until this round of blades.
Evidently I finally cleared the 'setting the bevel' hurdle. In great part thanks to some tips from wolfpack on the stones I was using before, and tape cadence during honing.
Basically I started all of them with three layers of good .010 thick 3M tape and a carbo 152 barbers hone. When the edge was starting to come together and grab my thumb pad I removed a layer of tape and moved to another barbers hone. From there, improved the edge and developed the bevel a bit more till biting the thumb pad all along the edge than remove the second layer and move to a 1k. Stay on 1 layer and the 1k for 40 circles with pressure, and slurry, than 40 X's. Dilute the slurry and 40 light circles than 40 light X's. From there to the Norton 4/8k for all of them staying at 4k till I was really happy with the entire edge, then 10 light circles then 10 X's on the 8. Than I mixed it up for finishers.
Sunday= Charnely Forest x 100X's
Monday= Zulu Gray x 100X's
Tuesday=Cnat x 100X's
Wednesday=Coticule x 40X's-slurry to clear
Thursday=Grecian Natural x 50X's-slurry to clear
Friday= Escher x 40X's- stc
Saturday=Thuringian x 40X's-stc

Will be fun to really study the different finisher effect on reasonably identical steel. Some of the bevels did not end up being 'pretty'. But they are all straight on the business side of them, and it would clearly seem, that is all that matters..
Cheers.

Wow, Wow, Wow Mike. You did a fantastical job on all of it! Razors, box, brush, engraving are all superb. Can't wait to see them at the next meet. You better hold on tight cause I'm willing to bet Colin's going to be after them!

Thanks Andrew. Felt great to be done the honing. My wrist is actually a little sore tonight after a week of restoring edge work. It takes so long to get that first new bevel after all that steel polishing, but you know too well.
The fact that they all shave nice is an extra yee-haa.
Going to repin Thursday though. Seems to catch if I'm not careful closing it, even after some coaxing with the ball peen. One out of seven isn't a bad average, but still, I want em perfect.
You are right about Colin, haha. He's probably got a few 7 day sets in the making in that mad travel case of his though so we can always work something out.

Three more pages I can't wait to post a reply.... wow right on man! Really good work! I've been building a set of blades to make a "7 day 7 different manufacturer wedge set".. and this job you've done is kicking me in the butt to do it!!!
You have pushed the envelope further, no turning back now! Lol
Man what the heck have I been doing.. need to get to work!
Thanks for the inspiration and ideas..