OK, looking back, I see "Pacocot" equated to "lots of pressure, then back off". Well, I'm still getting fed up with my La Grise; the booger just isn't working for me a good portion / most of the time. Maybe it was emotions, maybe just trying something new, but here's what happened...bit of play-by-play. I think I Pacocotted.
So if I started with a reasonably decent edge, I think if I then proceed directly to Step "XVII" (the "RRRRGGH" part, though without the negative emotions), I think I have another method to deal with this La Grise. This is the Pacocot of B&B myth and legend (circa a couple months ago), yes?
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- Hey, that weird Boker is here on my razor storage thingy. I'll give it a go. Having the jonesin' for some honesin', I figured i'd take the blade and touch it up. It was hair-popping somewhat to start with, but a guys gotta do what a -- well. ok.
- in the past few weeks, I'd gotten a LaGrise bout, and sometimes it had worked for me if I finished on the coti under some running water. Other times it didn't. So I lapped the rock a smidge (I've learned the hard way to not skip that), lightly rubbed a slurry stone on it to smooth it a bit, rinsed well, and then went a did a bunch (100+) laps under running water, just like the last times.
- took it from under the water and checked for undercut of the waterfront...completely gone.
- well frik.
- Norton 8K tuned it up again.
- coti with water....lost it.
- coti with just a haze of slurry from slurry stone...got the undercut. yay! spent some time there.
- rinse, coti with water a little bit...lost it. dang.
- coti with just a haze of slurry from slurry stone...got the undercut. yay! spent some time there.
- rinse, dry, HHT check...nope.
- well frik.
- sigh.
- RRRRRGGGHHH!!!! <hones with crazy pressure, worried he's going to break something or bend the scales or something, but does it anyway.>
- whaaa? finally, the rock shows it's true colors and has slurried itself. (eww! well, it is next to the toilet, anyway) That was a question someone asked early on ("does it self slurry?"), and though I was watching for it all along before then and after, I couldn't see it. Well, if you push hard enough, it does. I was pushing hard.
- whaaa? I'm undercutting the water in some places! Not to be unexpected, given that slurry has shown do that (see above), but this was a better undercut, and not generated from a slurry stone.
- rinse everything...hone lightly with water and it retains the undercut for a bit, then notices it is starting to go.
- hones some more with crazy pressure, reachieving undercut. Do that until undercut is continuous both directions, all along the edge. I swear, a softer metal would have bent. Was actually worried I was going to snap it somehow.
- ease up on the pressure, using the self-generated slurry...it retains the undercut.
- rinse, squirt on a bunch of Smith's Honing solution, hone on that veeeery lightly for 30 laps.
- rinse, dry.
- HHT 3. Strop --> HHT4.
- smooth nice shave this morning.
So if I started with a reasonably decent edge, I think if I then proceed directly to Step "XVII" (the "RRRRGGH" part, though without the negative emotions), I think I have another method to deal with this La Grise. This is the Pacocot of B&B myth and legend (circa a couple months ago), yes?
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