a member of this board who shall remain nameless until they wish to divulge their secret identity *shifty sent me a "KRYSTAL EDGE" razor shaped object with the challenge issued to hone it and see if it will take an edge.....
it arrived today... i ran outside and brought it in and immediately ran for the stones...... i set the bevel with my 1k king waterstone and then flipped it over to the 6k side just to knock a bit of the rough off the edge....
then i grabbed my coticule and some water and started working the edge... bringing the edge out trying to get a HHT out of it...... but nope.... it would shave arm hair like no tomorrow but just didn't wanna HHT...
do i finally just grabbed the welsh slate and without slurry made ~40passes.... still no hht...
went to the shave den and stropped it out ~40passes on latigo... HHT+... hmm....
then ~40more passes on 3"big daddy and HHT3........
now i am still not really happy with this but i figured what the heck.... lathered up with TOBS soap using warm water and started shaving...
what a nice surprise... i made a 2 pass with touchup DFS...... very satisfied with the shave...
now i will wait for the other guilty party in this to come forward and see what he wants to do.... i would love to make this a "honing pass around" like is being done with a certain "gold dollar 300"......
it arrived today... i ran outside and brought it in and immediately ran for the stones...... i set the bevel with my 1k king waterstone and then flipped it over to the 6k side just to knock a bit of the rough off the edge....
then i grabbed my coticule and some water and started working the edge... bringing the edge out trying to get a HHT out of it...... but nope.... it would shave arm hair like no tomorrow but just didn't wanna HHT...
do i finally just grabbed the welsh slate and without slurry made ~40passes.... still no hht...
went to the shave den and stropped it out ~40passes on latigo... HHT+... hmm....
then ~40more passes on 3"big daddy and HHT3........
now i am still not really happy with this but i figured what the heck.... lathered up with TOBS soap using warm water and started shaving...
what a nice surprise... i made a 2 pass with touchup DFS...... very satisfied with the shave...
now i will wait for the other guilty party in this to come forward and see what he wants to do.... i would love to make this a "honing pass around" like is being done with a certain "gold dollar 300"......