What Straight Razor Have You Honed Lately????

Today the Tafuri had a walk on ...
Belgian Blue
Princesa
Coticule
Ozuku

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very nice

 

Thanks

 

A new acquisition. A vintage 6/8 Tranchant Beajeu Aine.

Nice heavy blade so, I'm looking forward to see how she shaves.

She was a bit dirty. After spending the early day cleaning, I found the pitting was a bit more than I expected. Polished to what I was able. She shines but, the pitting is visible. Unfortunately, the edge had a few minor chips. I had to start with a 400 grit stone to remove them. Moving up to 15000 grit, she finally took a nice edge. Sterilized the blade. Not going to lie, it took close to 4 hours of honing to get it shave ready. I'll strop her for 100 laps tomorrow and see if I like the edge even more.

 

Took another pair of German (L. Sommer) and Swedish (Dahlgren) blades to the stones.
Suehiro 1k then Naniwa 4-8-12k then this Suehiro Gokumyo 20k for the finish.

Happy honing.
Tom

 

New 6/8 Double Duck Goldedge Special. She's a nice one, IMHO. polished up nice. Honed quickly to a nice shaving edge. Some lapping on the strop and I'll be using her first thing tomorrow morning. Can't wait to see how she shaves.

 

They look like great shaving blades.

 

Thank you. As long as I didn’t screw them up, they should be very enjoyable.
I don’t find the 20k too harsh, but the edge does get better for me a few shaves in with some good stropping.

look forward to seeing the duck in the SOTD

 

Not actually a straight razor.
It's a half of it.
It's wedge!!!

Wilkinson Sword
7 Day Set Empire
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CV Heljestrand Le Duc MK 44 Stainless Steel

Couldn't sleep a wink last night. So, instead of looking into the vast stupidity of late night T.V., I decided to set up my work station, listen to an audio book and clean up and hone a straight razor. The blade was a bit scratched from, I suppose, a wrong angle perhaps? Wrong sharpening material? I don't know. But she was nicely polished so only work came from honing an improper edge geometry. It looks like whomever tried to sharpen it in the past, may have used a knife sharpener??? Maybe.

The scales were filthy, however. Wet sanding and they turned out fine. A bit of re-setting the pins and she is tight.

As I stated, the edge wasn't correct so, it took a while to reform a new one. But, Seeing that I was wide awake and listening to "Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of the Four", I just kept on my merry little way until she took a beautiful edge. Stropped with linen for 50 laps, then leather for 100.

Looking forward to her test shave in a few day's. Have to shave with the new 6/8' Goldedge Special. I finished her yesterday. So, first come first serve, I suppose.

 

Doing a little more testing of the light green stone from Takeshi, with a TI Basic Black for a test razor. The stone is dense, pure, and not that hard.

The shave was excellent, I am pleased with this one.

 

6/8 Diamante

Full hollow ground with a Nice heavy blade.

Just finished her. I hope she shaves as good as she looks.

 

The usual suspects were up for the initial honing of the Rejoneo, bevel set with a Shapton Glass 2k HR, followed by a Shapton Glass 6k HC and Jnat. HHT was silent root in or out.

 

For the Hone of the Day ...

NALS Princesa di Fontanabuona
on
HRICO KureNai HH33B

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It looks sleek. The blade also looks like a fancy Gold Dollar 66. If you have a Gold Dollar 66, can you compare the two??

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@DaltonGang
GD66 I had was warped. This is straight.
Edge retains a little better.
Stabilizer is not an issue to honing.

 

5/8 A.W. WADSWORTH & SON BOSS

 

Thursday morning, CVH MK No. 24 3/8”. Remarkable nice piece of razor. From have being not that fun to a favourite. The solution was a lot of stropping...



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Another Dovo Frown ala Convex honing







I did a vid on how to correct them on FB I need to figure out how to load it here...

Ha!!!! Found it and figured out how to load it

 

Maher & Grosh Famous Toledo Blade;

Honed very nicely. Couldn't get the small pitting cleared up without grinding so, I just cleaned it up.