This hone confuses me with a stellar edge on the Jernbolaget to bad or mediocre edges on Heljestrand razors.
What did you hone today?
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This hone confuses me with a stellar edge on the Jernbolaget to bad or mediocre edges on Heljestrand razors.
Steve56
Ask me about shaving naked!
What is the stone?
Yeah,I think one of you are talking 'low' relative to the spine, and the other is thinking relative to the cutting edge.
Don't know, guess thuri. Feels like one but my hone knowledge is limited.
Schwedenstein to left, probably 2 thuri to the right.
With the line down the middle it kind of looks like a Rozsutec stone. I think I have seen all grey ones but I am not 100% sure.
Thanks for the tip, rozsutec was knew for me.
Have you seen any grey from out of space also?
Are you a stone collector and or honer? Guess there are a lot of grey hone and confusing alike often.
I was afraid it was the honer.Might be, if you hone the same razor on the same stone and only get a decent edge sometimes then......maybe not the steel or stone
The Johan Engstrom was tugging a bit when I brought it back into my rotation (loaned the Wade & Butcher Frameback out), so it had a dance with the Naniwa 12k followed by the balsa progression. Seems much improved, but we shall see...
I also took the rest of the rotation to the 0.1u balsa for weekly maintenance. Only 5 of 7 pictured since Mondays are GEMMondays and I used the Universal Lama Intera shavette one day last week (Shark blade).
Bottom to top:
Wade & Butcher, FBU
Greaves and Sons, near wedge
Rigarazor, 1/4 hollow (near wedge?)
WM. Greaves and Sons FBU (full hollow)
Johan Engstrom Frameback
I also took the rest of the rotation to the 0.1u balsa for weekly maintenance. Only 5 of 7 pictured since Mondays are GEMMondays and I used the Universal Lama Intera shavette one day last week (Shark blade).
Bottom to top:
Wade & Butcher, FBU
Greaves and Sons, near wedge
Rigarazor, 1/4 hollow (near wedge?)
WM. Greaves and Sons FBU (full hollow)
Johan Engstrom Frameback
I just got a Suehiro 20K. Previously I was finishing on a Shapton 16K and on some Agates.
Setting the bevel took forever as the blade had a serious ding to take out. I ended up spending about 5 hours on that blade to clean it up and hone it.
Setting the bevel took forever as the blade had a serious ding to take out. I ended up spending about 5 hours on that blade to clean it up and hone it.
Chan Eil Whiskers
Fumbling about.
Been working on this German razor for a while. Today it received about a hundred round trips on the finishing side of the Double Convex Arkansas 8x3. I'm trying to max it out on the sharpness meter.
Happy shaves,
Jim
Nice. What did you use for lubricant and was there other stones in the work up?
Soapy water. I had to take a chip out on diamonds but just did it on this the rest of the way.
Chan Eil Whiskers
Fumbling about.
More honing on the Solid Comfort. On the hard side of the DCA. Another hundred laps maybe. Maxing it out is my goal.
Happy shaves,
Jim
Chan Eil Whiskers
Fumbling about.
It may be maxed out. Hibbard Spencer, Bartlett & Co. Solid Comfort. German. The photo is supposed to show how the blade looks like the Torrey 136 blade.
Happy shaves,
Jim
So I have gotten decent edges from this unknown green monster, but tried the Atoma slurry since it is really hard and doesn’t slurry easily. Wow what a difference. No diluting finished on slurry.
Atoma slurry? Well done, can tame the wild ones.
Alx
Alx
Old French 8/8-ish stubtail. Major slab of Jnaticus Maximus, and friends.
I refreshed my gold plated Koraat on a Naniwa SS 8k and then my Thurigian, but then I did something new, I stropped on a strop with diamond emulsion/paste. Wow that gave whole another level of smoothness and keenness to the edge.
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