Haven't shaved with my Grelot in over a year. It's a fave piece but I've been test honing a lot for a long time, and I do that on pick-up razors mostly.
Anyway - I decide to use it tonight, I wipe off the oil - carefully - and rinse it off, again - carefully.
While stropping on linen - I hear something that's not quite right.
In fact - it sounds very very wrong.
I look, and the edge has a weirdness near the heel.
I loupe - and there's a folded section of the edge near there - not really a ding, more like the edge got too thin, and just bent over.
Not quite like a wire edge, or a foiled edge - but sorta. Not real deep into the bevel, but deep enough where it's not a small issue.
Not happy. Not happy at all. Damn gremlins or whatever caused this. Really pissed me off.
The Shiroto was out already, so I got to it on Botan, for 3 full sessions, The ding or whatever was gone at this point - and the bevel was reset.
BTW - Grelots are made of some hard-*** steel.
After that - I skipped Tenjou (wasn't needed) and went to Mejiro followed by Koma.
I chose to finish with a mystery Nakayama Tomo. Good stuff - slurry has a bit of brown-ness to it. Feels perfect on every stone.
I honed to mud then diluted for each Nagura. 2-3 dilutions for each.
No water laps - might give it a few later later or tomorrow, but I'm not feelin' it right now.
Besides, to be honest, I really don't think it needs any. Im pretty sure I nailed this one on Tomo Slurry.
I'm no longer tweaked - honing is sorta zen-inducing for me.
The edge is sparkling and the edge is screaming sharp and no doubt quite smooth.
I'm going to shave now.
Gremlins be damned.
Anyway - I decide to use it tonight, I wipe off the oil - carefully - and rinse it off, again - carefully.
While stropping on linen - I hear something that's not quite right.
In fact - it sounds very very wrong.
I look, and the edge has a weirdness near the heel.
I loupe - and there's a folded section of the edge near there - not really a ding, more like the edge got too thin, and just bent over.
Not quite like a wire edge, or a foiled edge - but sorta. Not real deep into the bevel, but deep enough where it's not a small issue.
Not happy. Not happy at all. Damn gremlins or whatever caused this. Really pissed me off.
The Shiroto was out already, so I got to it on Botan, for 3 full sessions, The ding or whatever was gone at this point - and the bevel was reset.
BTW - Grelots are made of some hard-*** steel.
After that - I skipped Tenjou (wasn't needed) and went to Mejiro followed by Koma.
I chose to finish with a mystery Nakayama Tomo. Good stuff - slurry has a bit of brown-ness to it. Feels perfect on every stone.
I honed to mud then diluted for each Nagura. 2-3 dilutions for each.
No water laps - might give it a few later later or tomorrow, but I'm not feelin' it right now.
Besides, to be honest, I really don't think it needs any. Im pretty sure I nailed this one on Tomo Slurry.
I'm no longer tweaked - honing is sorta zen-inducing for me.
The edge is sparkling and the edge is screaming sharp and no doubt quite smooth.
I'm going to shave now.
Gremlins be damned.
