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    Default Honing my second razor - Admins can you please move it to the hone section? sorry

    Hello all....

    I just hone a DOVO that I bought from ClassicShaving....

    I have one question, I starting in this, and I have other razor that I bought in Ebay...

    I hone both of them....

    Today I shaved with both of them and with a shavette using a persona blade to compare my hone with an already sharped blade...

    Obviously the best one was the Shavette, but the feeling in my skin with the DOVO was very close to the Shavette....

    I have a Norton 4k/8k, paddle strop with red paste, and my strop....

    What should I do to get the DOVO at least as sharp as the Persona?

    Should I keep doing the pyramid? just more cycles with the 8k? more red strope? or just more in the strop?

    Thanks in advacne
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    Industrially honed blades are always sharper.
    Why not use green paste after the 8K? You can also use a coticule or Thuringer (sold by Tony Miller) as a polishing hone after the 8K. That's what I believe Lynn does as well. Strop on leather after the coticule/Thuringer.

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    I honed it with the norton 4k/8k and then used the strop with the red paste (I think it is less coarse than the green one)

    I ordered a Shapton 15k, is it similar to the coticule?

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    Well, there is no easy answer to your question. Just keep at it. The blade in your Shavette will shave with less effort maybe, but the feeling from the DOVO is totaly diferent. The stone you have is just fine, continue to work on the blade, and read previous experiences here.

    I'd suggest 2 or 3 1-5 pyramids on the Noron, followed by 10-20 laps on the red paddle, although my opinion is that you don't need it for now, and then 50 on the leather. If not there yet, repeat.

    But, most likely the reason for your failure is your stropping technique. That takes time to develop, and it is also possible that your razor is sharp enough, but the stropping is not bringing the best out of it. Try testing for sharpness with the hanging hair test, and see how it goes...

    Nenad

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    I as I said I'm new on this.....sorry for this basic question but I cant find what/how exactly is the hanging hair test?

    How should I perform the HHT ?

    Thanks in advance for your help

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