What Straight Razor Have You Honed Lately????

Discussion in 'Straight Razors' started by DaltonGang, Sep 25, 2016.

  1. TestDepth

    TestDepth Well-Known Member

    Wife’s traveling, so spending time with stones. Suehiro 1k turned over to these two Coticules for this Smith & Hall out of Sheffield.
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    The range of use of that bottom Coticule is really nice.

    Then shifted to a couple of German razors. Figured a Thuringian made sense to finish, so added a 6k Suehiro between the 1k and this Thuri.
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    A Globusmen 23 and a F.A. Koch & Co. “Faultless”
    I have seen both Globusmann and Globusmen... and now both in one spot :)
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    Happy honing.
    Tom
     
  2. Edison Carter

    Edison Carter Well-Known Member

    Been driving my shavettes a lot lately and this razor was calling.

    Found in an antique store for $18, I was mesmerized by the mother of pearl shank and tang. John Jay markings.

    Got the rust that I could, but some pitting remained. I gave it an edge that shaved, but I wanted better.

    Worked it on a black ark with ballastol. Aside from a shave test, a thumbpad test has been my best indicator. I just couldn't get the heel portion balanced with the toe until I used a few trailing strokes. A little pressure at first then lighter, then light full edge strokes, leading and trailing. Couple of pasted strops, then mounted roo.

    Off to the shave. I'm much happier now. Nice!

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  3. Steve56

    Steve56 Hone Hoarder

    That’s sweet!
     
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  4. TestDepth

    TestDepth Well-Known Member

    Kept going... same synthetic progression but shifted to a JNat finish - Okudo with that Nakayama making the mud.
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    The Filly is still a basket case (even after quite a bit of cosmetic work) but the edge looks and feels nice. Should be a good shaver.
    Happy honing.
    Tom
     
  5. DaltonGang

    DaltonGang Ol' Itchy Whiskers

    Sometimes the gold cannot be saved, to make the rest look good.

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  6. TestDepth

    TestDepth Well-Known Member

    I’m stubborn :) ... next step is using a pencil to hit the smaller sections. I actually don’t mind how it looks now. I knew this would be ugly, but I felt confident I could get the edge, and that’s why I pulled the trigger.
     
  7. TestDepth

    TestDepth Well-Known Member

    One more session for the weekend... big German blades.
    “Pride of Bronx” & a Herder 49 in black
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    The Bronx razor was a gem, got to start on this Suehiro 6k. The Herder was a little more work... middle 1/4 near the point needed some love. Rolling X and coming off the stone brought it in line. Finished on the Okudo with Nakayama tomo.
    Happy honing.
    Tom
     
  8. atbat82

    atbat82 Well-Known Member

    I spent a good part of the weekend honing this CV Heljstrand MK No. 07. This was another eBay gamble and possibly a mistake to buy . It took me 4-5X longer than normal to set the bevel, I know Swedish Steel is hard, but this was a whole different issue. The back side of the blade just didn’t want to sit on the hones, while the front side glided along as if stuck by a magnet. Thanks to some help from Mark and Glen, I didn’t throw the razor across the room. Instead I started working in 45 minute chunks of time. After 45 minutes, I put it down and either grabbed a different razor or went to do something else for a while.

    Eventually, through some contortions and a lot of patience, I finally got a good bevel. TNT and TPT the full length of the edge. I was going to stop at this point and do a 1k shave test, but I was way too excited. I should still go back and do that at some point.

    The toe and heel seem a little off, as even moving up through the progression, I had to spend a lot of extra time on these areas on the back of the blade. Again, the front honed like it was stuck to the stones. I took up through 12k, then based on my last go round with a Friodur, decided to finish on a Nakayama. I raised some slurry and gave it about 40 very light laps diluting every 5 or so strokes.

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    The final test was obviously this morning’s shave and I have to say, I’m pleased with the results. If I was rating myself, I’d give me a 7.5/10. There’s one small section on the heel on the back that felt like it was pulling ever so slightly. All in all, given how much trouble it gave me, I’m happy!

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  9. speedster

    speedster Well-Known Member

    Way to persevere on that blade, Tom, as I’m sure I would have given up much sooner. Problem blades scream work rather than zen/fun for me. ;)
     
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  10. Edison Carter

    Edison Carter Well-Known Member

    Way to stick with it!
     
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  11. DaltonGang

    DaltonGang Ol' Itchy Whiskers

    Blue Steel Special
    By: The Herold Bros Co. Cleveland OH.
    5/8th Extra Hollow Ground

    This razor isn't mine, but a fellow members. I did have to take it back to the Norton 1K. It took a while to form a proper bevel. From there it went to the King 1K(really feels like a 2K+). Then a Cheap mystery 3k/8k stone. After that, the bevel was beautiful. I then did everything else on a very hard JNAT, with various Nagura slurry stones. I then stropped it up, and tested it on some very fine hairs. It popped the HHT, root in or out, down the entire length of the blade. This is one wickedly sharp blade now.

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  12. DaltonGang

    DaltonGang Ol' Itchy Whiskers

    Wade & Butcher, "Special"
    Sheffield England
    6/8th
    Extra Hollow Ground

    This had a bit of corrosion all over, especially on the bevel. It took a lot of work on the Norton 320 grit stone, to work it out. I then progressed easily through the rest, and finished on a hard JNAT with various Nagura slurry stones. Same as above, in progression. Very very nice edge, after I finished.


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  13. DaltonGang

    DaltonGang Ol' Itchy Whiskers

    Filarmonica 14
    "Doble Temple"
    Jose Monserrat Pou
    Spain
    "El Fauno" 50-71. Paraguay.

    It was fairly sharp to begin with, but needed to go back to the 1k. It took a little longer than expected, the steel is very hard. Same progression as the above razors. The only issue was that it required twice the time on the linen and leather, because of the steel. In the end, it is extremely sharp, toe to heel. Oh, this has one of the tiniest bevels I have ever seen, because the spine is fairly thick. Before I did anything to the blade, the scales had to be modified. One side was broken at the pivot area, so reshaping was in order. Is I ever find some nice Fily scales to swap, I will toss these.

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  14. alex1921

    alex1921 Well-Known Member

    Took the Maxfli back to the stones. First on the suita with DN slurry. This is the finest suita I have, sunashi, no su (holes). You can easily shave coming off of it.
    Then to this really hard old school kiita with koma and then an equally hard and beautiful tomo. Finished on slurry, there wasn't much of it. No dilutions.
    Shave was spectacular.

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  15. Steve56

    Steve56 Hone Hoarder

    This was actually a test of the piece of koma nagura that’s for a friend of mine. Last night I honed up 2 Gold Monkeys the same up through the koma nagura, then I finished one of them on the finisher. The shave was this morning and the edges felt identical, so the koma is fine (and fast) and not diminishing the edge from either stone.

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  16. Leclec13

    Leclec13 Well-Known Member

    im new to jnats. i have so much to learn... if koma finish and finisher alone provide same to similar edge, and koma does not improve edge over finisher.... In my novice head makes me question .....Is koma nagura necessary?
     
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  17. DaltonGang

    DaltonGang Ol' Itchy Whiskers

    Calling all JNAT Guru's.

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  18. Suhrim21

    Suhrim21 Well-Known Member

    Anyone close to kern county california that can help me with honing? This is the second razor that after stropping shaves cheeks great and feels like I shaved my neck with sandpaper. I no longer think it's just a foil edge. I think my cheeks just are not as sensitive as my neck.
     
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  19. Leclec13

    Leclec13 Well-Known Member

    Haven’t you historically had issues with neck? Have you ever had a shave that did not irritate neck? If rest of face shaves fine. I doubt it is razor? Have you tired neck with lower angle? What is your post shave routine? Are you shaving neck first?
     
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  20. Steve56

    Steve56 Hone Hoarder

    Koma is not usually considered as a razor finishing tomo. I was just comparing it to a finisher to try and gage the fineness of this particular piece. No, it is not necessary. It can, IMHO, take the place of an 8k synth and that is what I mostly used it for. IOW, synth to 4-5k, koma on hard finisher, then tomo on finisher. These days I usually just use a fast kiita as a pre-finisher after 4-5k synth. There’s nothing magic about koma, but Mikawa can be fun to use.
     

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