It also only cost $13.50 and for some reason that's important.
Cheap at twice the price!
It also only cost $13.50 and for some reason that's important.
I read this post and thought about you Jim.
Good idea to stick with one razor for a while if you can. Allows you to work on technique, determine effectiveness of your stropping and see how long your edge can hold up.
I tend to use the same razor 5 days of the week then throw in a different one on weekends. When I started I used the same razor for 2 years.
I like the price of the home one, but not the 25gram resolution. The industrial at 1 gram sounds nice. Buying the testing material and using my already owned scales and seeing what results I can come up with sounds like the best bet to me though.
I have a plan. It's not chiseled in stone,butandit's not mushy eitherit might be as mushy as oatmeal.
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I'm going to stick with this razor for a while. Only this razor. I'm going to learn it better, and maybe see if I can get it sharper.
This is not a Fixed Four or anything remotely that committed. There are no rules. I can change my mind and even be fickle if I decide to be. It's just an experiment and a project and an idea that sticking with just this one razor for a while might be useful to me
This $13.50 13/16" 360 Kukri was last honed recently enough, link, using my Dilucot Oil Honing method. I've shaved with it at least once since it was honed and enjoyed the shave.
I don't have any particular plan except to stick with it and see what I see, and do what I do, until I decide to change to a different razor. If I get bored with it I am allowed shaves with other razors. Nothing fixed about this except my determination to see where this goes.
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I got official permission from Big Nurse to do this. That's a very bad sign. Big Nurse also said for everybody to read this thread, linked.
Happy shaves,
Jim
I like the price of the home one, but not the 25gram resolution. The industrial at 1 gram sounds nice. Buying the testing material and using my already owned scales and seeing what results I can come up with sounds like the best bet to me though.
After thinking about it, realized their scales have a "capture" aspect to them which mine don't, so best I could do would be notice the most pressure applied before applying enough to cut, if I could apply it consistent enough not to be bouncing the reading all over the place.That's an interesting idea. If you go that route please let me know how it works.
Happy shaves,
Jim
After thinking about it, realized their scales have a "capture" aspect to them which mine don't, so best I could do would be notice the most pressure applied before applying enough to cut, if I could apply it consistent enough not to be bouncing the reading all over the place.
Could it be something to do with the "heavy stropping" experiment?It was an okay shave in terms of results, but not my most comfortable shave. I'm not sure what was off, but I will examine the edge carefully with my little USB microscopes and other magnifying devices. Could I have gotten a little chip or something? I don't see how, but I'll look. I will consider what else to do to improve or fix the edge + it could have been something else and not edge related, but what?
Could it be something to do with the "heavy stropping" experiment?
A question from the uninitiated Doug: When you say strokes does that mean a stroke on one side of the blade (half a lap?), or both sides (a lap?)?6 strokes on CrOx pasted linen.
10 strokes on clean linen.
20 on leather.
A question from the uninitiated Doug: When you say strokes does that mean a stroke on one side of the blade (half a lap?), or both sides (a lap?)?
It strikes me that the more I get to know the less I understand (about this SR lark).
Usually I swim a mile or so. To swim a mile in a 25-yard pool, you have to make 36 round trips...In swimming, the lap refers to swimming from one end of the pool to the next. Without a doubt, it's one end of the pool to the other. It's not back and forth.
So, now I've slowed down my stropping strokes and altered the amount I do on pasted linen and clean linen.
It goes something like this before a shave.
After a shave.
- 6 strokes on CrOx pasted linen.
- 10 strokes on clean linen.
- 20 on leather.
I read a post on the SR forums where it was mentioned that stropping on CrOx, on leather or whatever, can dull the edge if you over do it and less than 10 strokes was recommended.
- 10 on clean linen.
- 20 on leather.
Doing it the above way seems to keep the edge at its best, for me anyway.
One of the many things I've found out by doing the FFFMM, thanks to Cal for that.
Doug,
Do you strop like that on CrOx after every shave? On top of the coticule's edges? Maybe I should do that, too?
Thanks and happy shaves,
Jim
That post would be good on the FFFMM thread Doug, please.Doing it the above way seems to keep the edge at its best, for me anyway.
One of the many things I've found out by doing the FFFMM, thanks to Cal for that.