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Girls call me Makaluod
I had some free time today so I thought that I would work on the edge of my "bluntest" SR. Out came one of my Titan ACRM-2 blades. I started by lightly bread-knifing the edge on an empty San Miguel beer bottle.
From the beer bottle, I set the bevel using the burr method on a 1k synthetic stone on bench. All was good and the edge shave my arm hair - just. From there I went to my 3k natural stone and honed hand-held until there were no more marks on the bevel from the 1k. Now arm shaving was easy.
Next was the 12u lapping film (I skipped the 30u as I had used the 3k stone) and progressed up to 1u, all hand held, before switching to my diamond pasted hand-held balsa strops. 100 laps on 0.50u medium pressure, 150 laps on 0.25u light pressure and finished off with 200 laps on 0.10u hung vertically with almost no pressure.
I finished off with 100 very light laps on my clean cow-hide leather strop.
All was looking good and I felt satisfied with my work. Now came the final tree-topping test. The edge would not tree-top cut my arm hair. I could almost swear that the hairs cut before the edge even touched them!
Of course the real test will be tomorrow morning when I shave with it.
My fifth and best Method edge to date. From bread-knifing to failed TTT was a little over an hour. A big thank you to Slash for the Method threads and his guidance over the past couple of months.
Slash, when you are next in Cebu, your drinks are on me.
From the beer bottle, I set the bevel using the burr method on a 1k synthetic stone on bench. All was good and the edge shave my arm hair - just. From there I went to my 3k natural stone and honed hand-held until there were no more marks on the bevel from the 1k. Now arm shaving was easy.
Next was the 12u lapping film (I skipped the 30u as I had used the 3k stone) and progressed up to 1u, all hand held, before switching to my diamond pasted hand-held balsa strops. 100 laps on 0.50u medium pressure, 150 laps on 0.25u light pressure and finished off with 200 laps on 0.10u hung vertically with almost no pressure.
I finished off with 100 very light laps on my clean cow-hide leather strop.
All was looking good and I felt satisfied with my work. Now came the final tree-topping test. The edge would not tree-top cut my arm hair. I could almost swear that the hairs cut before the edge even touched them!
Of course the real test will be tomorrow morning when I shave with it.
My fifth and best Method edge to date. From bread-knifing to failed TTT was a little over an hour. A big thank you to Slash for the Method threads and his guidance over the past couple of months.
Slash, when you are next in Cebu, your drinks are on me.
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