King or chosera 1K stone for rough work. 2K chosera if don't need to go to 1K or light work on 2K after 1K Steelex Japanese Chisel Sharpening...
Plating protects sides and spine from corrosion. It will be ground off on the edge during sharpening/honing. Its actually pretty thin, like 5-20...
I hones this one after sand blasting and plating. I think i need to hone it better though and definitely more practice needed. At this point i...
The razors got here today. Here is a very quick plate job. 9453s is original 9457s is after sand blasting 9458 is after zinc-nickel plating and...
Thanks all for the input. It sounds like it is pretty safe for me to "play" with most of these, which is kind of was the plan. I have a bunch of...
Thanks all.
I just bought a lot of old straight razors that i intend to restore. I'd like to know if any of these are good/valuable, that way i wont try to...
Yeah. It is definitely closer than i aimed for. After a bit more playing with my face I'd have to downgrade it to partial BBS. It is BBS with the...
OMG BBS. Just got it about 20 minutes ago (well got back home from work 20 minutes ago and it was here). Let me preface by saying that over the...
pulled a trigger on Braun S9 9390cc. Hoping that with light touch it might do the job. Reviewers on youtobe said it is very gentle on the skin; so...
What i came to realize is that i do not like the phase of hair growth that occurs between bbs and 8 o'clock shadow (takes me couple days to get...
Looks like most of the forum deals with non-electric razors, so hopefully this is an OK place to post a question about an electric one. Let me...
After several attempts to shave with the fatboy and feather blades I came to a conclusion that for my facial hair a feather is only good for 1...
chemically sharpened??? whats that??? Chemicals can etch a metal, but they cant sharpen something.
Getting less sharp after a few shaves is the result of wire edge getting ripped off or folded over. It is my current opinion that feather blades...
Generally speaking, when you sharpen a blade you do it in 3 phases. Grinding - rough stones that get sides generally close. Sharpening, medium...
This is what an edge of a brand new, never used, feather blade looks like under the microscope. https://i.ibb.co/nfmr9LX/Img00000.jpg Width of the...
Still a work in progress... I would like for top to open up further, so may need to fully disassemble again to pad up the top surface of the...
yup, it is the quarter turn tight. But thanks for trying.
I know that different DE blades have different sharpness. My question is this: When using an adjustable safety razor like fatboy, does the blade...
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