Straight vs feather

[buca3152]

Hello, I been honing and using straights since october. I get very sharp and smooth shaves. Yesterday I used a shavette with a feather blade. Great shave, a little itch 1/2 hour later. 1 pass atg on the neck and done. Is it possible to get that same sharpness in a straight? Ive tried a few professionally honed blades, and my edges are IMO very close to theirs. Their blades are not as sharp either. I can do a atg fools pass with no or little tugging with my straights so I know the blade is extremely sharp. I just got some .25 dia spray and am experimenting with latigo and hanging felt. The absolute sharpest I got was .3 micron film on granite. But the edge doesnt last. Whats the sharpest method for you guys? My stropping is excellent IMO, 60 laps daily.
I always get an improvement on hht with the strop. I dont expect my skills to be that of a honemeister as the time is less than a year. I own 41 straights and have honed these all several times. So maybe Ive honed 120 blades.

 

[Brooksie967]

Jnat

 

[buca3152]

Which one and what is the progression. I use dmt 1200 sometime norton 4/8 then 1 micron film.

 

[Brooksie967]

after 8k you'd need a few naguras, tenjoyu then mejiro then tomo nagura. OR after your 1 micron film go to tomo nagura on the jnat. ozuku, nakayama, whatever. as long as it's fine and hard.
There are lots of threads here about jnats and what quantifies something as a finisher. check some out!

OR buy the suehiro 20k.

 

[ANeat]

Is it possible to get that same sharpness in a straight?

I keep trying, so far like Brooksie said the Jnat has got me the closest. After trying Man made stones, film, coticules. (I really need to go back and re-try) but honestly an inexpensive Jnat and a few naguras has surpassed everything else even after my first few attempts. (never believed I would say that) Mainaman's nagura videos pretty well sums it up (look up nagura honing) I followed his demo and got great results (Thanks Mainaman !!)

As good as a shavette, not yet, but its fun trying

 

[jpcwon]

+1 on what Brooksie and Adam said. I have found that the JNAT edge is pretty much the sharpest AND smoothest that I have tried. I can get an edge just as sharp with synthetics, but the smoothness is lacking IMHO...Coticules are right up there in the smoothness dept, but I have found that I am able to get a tad keener of an edge by using a JNAT...

 

[gash]

The kind of straight may make a difference, too. In my not-so-humble-opinion-that-should-be-treated-as-fact, a kamisori is often much sharper than a Western straight. That doesn't mean that a Western straight can't get as sharp as a kamisori. It just means that I think it's easier to bring a kamisori to a perverse level of sharpness. That's based on my experience and on seeing other people's experiences.

My kamisori can outperform a Feather DE blade when using my hair for an HHT. And that blade doesn't like the HHT.

 

[Brooksie967]

+1 on what Brooksie and Adam said. I have found that the JNAT edge is pretty much the sharpest AND smoothest that I have tried. I can get an edge just as sharp with synthetics, but the smoothness is lacking IMHO...Coticules are right up there in the smoothness dept, but I have found that I am able to get a tad keener of an edge by using a JNAT...

JP C'mon a TAD???

 

[jpcwon]

JP C'mon a TAD???

Oh okay....a pretty good amount!!