Hey B&B!
This forum was a tremendous resource for me in 2007 when I spent some of my senior spring in college teaching myself to shave with a straight.
Then life caught up with me and for the next 15 years I didn’t have the regular time, place, or space to pick the hobby back up.
The past few years I’ve built myself a shop and rediscovered the pleasure of sharpening while maintaining some hand tools for woodworking. I found the old Dovo the other day and decided it was time to take the plunge! To that end — a question on honing and polishing.
I use 1k, 3k/8k, and 10k Ohishi waterstones on my plane irons and chisels with a bit of a light stop on the old Heirloom Strop Co. latigo (undressed). I can get a shaving sharpness on chisels I finish on my Tormek, but haven’t ever been able to get the plane irons quite there on the stone/stop progression.
Should I be able to get a shave-ready razor with that setup? Should I add in a glassstone or something >10k grit or a pasted strop?
And one more — I should be taping the spine while I work back into this, right? Looks like Scapa tape is the recommendation?
Glad to be back with the community here!
This forum was a tremendous resource for me in 2007 when I spent some of my senior spring in college teaching myself to shave with a straight.
Then life caught up with me and for the next 15 years I didn’t have the regular time, place, or space to pick the hobby back up.
The past few years I’ve built myself a shop and rediscovered the pleasure of sharpening while maintaining some hand tools for woodworking. I found the old Dovo the other day and decided it was time to take the plunge! To that end — a question on honing and polishing.
I use 1k, 3k/8k, and 10k Ohishi waterstones on my plane irons and chisels with a bit of a light stop on the old Heirloom Strop Co. latigo (undressed). I can get a shaving sharpness on chisels I finish on my Tormek, but haven’t ever been able to get the plane irons quite there on the stone/stop progression.
Should I be able to get a shave-ready razor with that setup? Should I add in a glassstone or something >10k grit or a pasted strop?
And one more — I should be taping the spine while I work back into this, right? Looks like Scapa tape is the recommendation?
Glad to be back with the community here!
