Hi All,
I'm a newbie to this and have rapidly (and happily) fallen into the rabbit hole. I have been using a Feather Artist Club in order to refine and improve my shaving technique, and that is going well. So I then bought a relatively basic Thiers Issard straight and had someone hone it for me. It was okay but not sharp enough to get through by thick stubble, so I've followed up by buying two desktop 3 x 8 strops with 10k and 30k grit diamond compound spray on them.
I stropped the crap out of the blade last night using both desktop strops (and found it extremely relaxing and therapeutic), however I am still not confident that the blade will be at the level of a feather artist injector blade. The blade is 'catching' the hairs on my arm and chest when I do that test, but it's not able to pass the hanging hair test, and until I can pass that one then there's no point in attempting to use it on my face as my facial hair seems to be pretty aggressive on blades. Would finishing things off with an untreated leather hanging strop do the trick do you think? Or might the blade itself just not be very good?
Can any one pls advise me on what I can do to the razor to get it that bit further in terms of sharpness so that it's something that I can confidently shave with?
Thanks very much.
I'm a newbie to this and have rapidly (and happily) fallen into the rabbit hole. I have been using a Feather Artist Club in order to refine and improve my shaving technique, and that is going well. So I then bought a relatively basic Thiers Issard straight and had someone hone it for me. It was okay but not sharp enough to get through by thick stubble, so I've followed up by buying two desktop 3 x 8 strops with 10k and 30k grit diamond compound spray on them.
I stropped the crap out of the blade last night using both desktop strops (and found it extremely relaxing and therapeutic), however I am still not confident that the blade will be at the level of a feather artist injector blade. The blade is 'catching' the hairs on my arm and chest when I do that test, but it's not able to pass the hanging hair test, and until I can pass that one then there's no point in attempting to use it on my face as my facial hair seems to be pretty aggressive on blades. Would finishing things off with an untreated leather hanging strop do the trick do you think? Or might the blade itself just not be very good?
Can any one pls advise me on what I can do to the razor to get it that bit further in terms of sharpness so that it's something that I can confidently shave with?
Thanks very much.