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rbscebu
Girls call me Makaluod
I have been thinking (a dangerous thing for me to do) and decided that there might be something inherently wrong with the edge on the edge of the Cnat Titan SR. Just to be sure, I took this SR back to a burr method bevel set on a 3k synthetic. I then refined it to the best I could on an 8k synthetic.
Yesterday I received a new Gold Dollar W59. After bread-knifing the excessive (for me) smile out of the blade on 400 grit synthetic, I set its bevel on 1k and progressed to 3k, finishing on the 8k synthetic.
The Titan had a measured bevel angle of about 18.3° while the GD came in at 16.9°. The Titan, being a much harder steel than the GD, took a lot more (about three times more) laps. The Titan comes in at about 70 RHC while the GD is just below 60 RHC.
This morning I shaved with both (just off the 8k), swapping sides during my three-pass shave. Both shaved but neither were comfortable or close. The GD required just a little less pressure to cut through my whiskers. I obtained a CCS- result, better than I had previously obtained with the Titan off the Cnat.
I will now put both SRs through the Cnat and see with tomorrow's shave if the results are better.
I would really like this Cnat to work for me.
Yesterday I received a new Gold Dollar W59. After bread-knifing the excessive (for me) smile out of the blade on 400 grit synthetic, I set its bevel on 1k and progressed to 3k, finishing on the 8k synthetic.
The Titan had a measured bevel angle of about 18.3° while the GD came in at 16.9°. The Titan, being a much harder steel than the GD, took a lot more (about three times more) laps. The Titan comes in at about 70 RHC while the GD is just below 60 RHC.
This morning I shaved with both (just off the 8k), swapping sides during my three-pass shave. Both shaved but neither were comfortable or close. The GD required just a little less pressure to cut through my whiskers. I obtained a CCS- result, better than I had previously obtained with the Titan off the Cnat.
I will now put both SRs through the Cnat and see with tomorrow's shave if the results are better.
I would really like this Cnat to work for me.