I am (and will be) continuing a single razor "edge" evaluation on the Wacker Barbers Bride.
I sent it for honing to a gentleman who prefers Shapton edges and goes to 30K. He finishes with a technique I've learned to be called 'jointing'. There is no disrespect intended here for others, just info. I have read opinions about his edges that border on the absolutes. I do not think it beats a shavette edge, but it is pretty good. I've finally learned how to do a successful hanging hair test, get a donation from the brush of The Lovely Mrs Headroom.
It has been a couple weeks and I'm trying to shave with it daily. It was the opinion of the Honer that 'over stropping' degrades the edge, so I am limiting to 10 cycles on a hanging leather piece at shave time.
In two weeks, it seems the edge has moved from a cautious sharp to a more comfortable sharp for my style.
Besides the pre-shave hanging strop routine, I elected to go with 1/10 micron cBN emulsion on glass mounted nanocloth. This substrate is supposed to have zero effect on the edge, isolating the action to the media used. So far 5-7 shaves between treatments, and a finish with a few light passes on roo.
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Most of my other abrasive strop compounds are on balsa for this magnet mount 3x11 setup. I'm just going to stick with minimums and add as I feel needed.
This could wind up being a long test. If I recall, I went something like 60 shaves on my training razor. I am supposing that to be a good thing.
Here, so far, so good.
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