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Today I received a new Titan ACRM-2 T.H.60 SR from the Titan Product Store on AliExpress. It came with all the normal trimming (denim strop, stropping paste (6.5g) and PU leather zippered case). Total cost was about US$20 including shipping (less than 2 weeks to Australia).
My intention with this SR is to sharpen it as per Titan's instructions and see how it goes. I will report my progress in this thread.
The Titan instructions are to apply a very light coating of their special stropping paste across the centre of the denim strop about 50mm long. Then, using the back (spine) of the SR, work the stropping paste along the full length of the denim strop. Once that is done, you strop the SR as normal before each shave on the pasted denim strop. Titan claim that their stropping paste is of a rear-earth suspended in a petroleum/wax base. (Rare-earth is not really rare as it is more abundant than copper in the earth's crust.)
Once this test is finished, I will hone the blade on lapping films, finish it off on diamond pasted balsa and then probably PIF the SR to an SR n00bie who has put together a 0.1µm diamond pasted balsa strop. Tomorrow I will shave with this SR as received so that I have a baseline from which to judge the results.
My intention with this SR is to sharpen it as per Titan's instructions and see how it goes. I will report my progress in this thread.
The Titan instructions are to apply a very light coating of their special stropping paste across the centre of the denim strop about 50mm long. Then, using the back (spine) of the SR, work the stropping paste along the full length of the denim strop. Once that is done, you strop the SR as normal before each shave on the pasted denim strop. Titan claim that their stropping paste is of a rear-earth suspended in a petroleum/wax base. (Rare-earth is not really rare as it is more abundant than copper in the earth's crust.)
Once this test is finished, I will hone the blade on lapping films, finish it off on diamond pasted balsa and then probably PIF the SR to an SR n00bie who has put together a 0.1µm diamond pasted balsa strop. Tomorrow I will shave with this SR as received so that I have a baseline from which to judge the results.