Thread: Did I kill my Wapi?

Hello All...

Last night I was working with my broken Wapi, I used the knife in the butter technique to remove the broken part....I was using the Norton 200 to do this

After that I moved to the Norton 1000 to set the bevel.

In the attached picture you can see the actual status.

Now I have a question, how can I know when it is time to move to the Norton 4000?

At this time the blade is more sharpen at the heel and toe than in the center...should I keep using the 1000 until I have it sharpen all the same way?

Any recommendations will be appreciated

the rule here at srp is for every razor you break or sell you must buy at least two to replace it and they must be of a higher value than the last ones

Originally Posted by vulcano

Hello All...

Last night I was working with my broken Wapi, I used the knife in the butter technique to remove the broken part....I was using the Norton 200 to do this

After that I moved to the Norton 1000 to set the bevel.

In the attached picture you can see the actual status.

Now I have a question, how can I know when it is time to move to the Norton 4000?

At this time the blade is more sharpen at the heel and toe than in the center...should I keep using the 1000 until I have it sharpen all the same way?

Any recommendations will be appreciated

Yes the bevel should be equally sharp all the way across the edge before moving up in grit...
On a 1k it should feel like the sharpest knife you have touched before you move up, and it should pop an arm hair at skin level, just by touching the edge to the hair, make sure you at least test 5 spots along the edge... The TNT rules the roost here, the edge should dig in when drawn across a wet thumbnail, then give it 10 more light laps and test to see if it cuts the arm hair....

Originally Posted by gssixgun

You know Victor, a very Special Gentleman here on SRP sent me some blades to hone, fix, and give away, as the need arises.... There is a brand new never been honed Wapi in there and I can have it honed and on it's way to you before the weekend if you would like.... That way for sure you have a good one ready to go....
Just let me know....

It warms my heart to see members stepping up to the plate.

Nice offer, man. Kudos to the sixgun and, of course, the anon donor.

You guys run a quality joint around here.


Nice to see vulcano fixed his blade. Huzzah !

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Yes the bevel should be equally sharp all the way across the edge before moving up in grit...
On a 1k it should feel like the sharpest knife you have touched before you move up, and it should pop an arm hair at skin level, just by touching the edge to the hair, make sure you at least test 5 spots along the edge... The TNT rules the roost here, the edge should dig in when drawn across a wet thumbnail, then give it 10 more light laps and test to see if it cuts the arm hair....

Thank you...with this instructions I have a lot of work to do tonight...

I will keep you posted

Regards..

I just joined this evening. I've been shaving with an Annie Disposable using 1/2 of a Dorco DE blade. I recently acquired a Wapi and a Miller Latigo Strop. I had never shaved with a straight so I didn't know just how sharp it should feel. When I tried to shave with the Wapi, all I could stand was to go WTG. Then I would go back to the Annie Disposable to finish up. I stropped and stropped but I could not get the Wapi to shave any where near like the Annie Disposable. The next thing I did was to purchase a new Norton 4K/8K water stone. I figured that if the Wapi would shave at all that I should hone it on the 8K side. I've done that and stropped it on the latigo leather and although it has improved, it still is not sharp. Is there something that I should do between the 8K hone and the Latigo Strop? Is it possible to get it as sharp as a DE razor blade and if so how?
Tim Brown

Wow, you have made a lot of progress.
I also managed to get mine flat. Something that I noticed is that the heel and the toe needed some polishing to round everything out. I will be working on honing it on 800 grit soon.

Originally Posted by vulcano

Hello All...

Last night I was working with my broken Wapi, I used the knife in the butter technique to remove the broken part....I was using the Norton 200 to do this

After that I moved to the Norton 1000 to set the bevel.

In the attached picture you can see the actual status.

Now I have a question, how can I know when it is time to move to the Norton 4000?

At this time the blade is more sharpen at the heel and toe than in the center...should I keep using the 1000 until I have it sharpen all the same way?

Any recommendations will be appreciated

Nice recovery, kingram. I thought you were barmy to try. Glad I was wrong.

X

I never give up. I am busy these days otherwise I would have got it ready by now. Thanks for the encouragement.

Originally Posted by xman

Nice recovery, kingram. I thought you were barmy to try. Glad I was wrong.

X

*UPDATE*

Now it is sharp all over the edge but only poping hair at the heel and toe....


More work to do tonight....