Russian Straight Razor Thread

It's getting worked on by Glen - gssixgun. It just arrived at his place today.

 

It's sure to get a great edge then. I hope he isn't charging by the hour. It seems that the Russian Razors are very time consuming.

 

Denial is a powerful thing. That's what I hear anyway

 

Or two

 

Virgin beauty of 60 years old, already flies to Comrade Karl G

 

I was too slow on that onelucky Karl G

 

I have a similar one inbound.

 

That's a Belter Comrade..I was Toiling with that One with an Itchy Finger..

Billy..

 

I had a short conversation with him about them and other harder steel razors. In short he said that if you expect it to take a long time it will take a long time. All you need to do is hone a few hundred razors and have the right tools and you'd be amazed at what you can do. (OK, I'm paraphrasing liberally.) But, he definitely welcomes them - so, that might be a good option for those of us who don't have the patience, talent, technique, or tools.

 

Da Comrade, some razors are more equal than others.

 

I'm going to give mine another shot. Started on my Welsh purple stone, and going to this one. Steel seems pretty soft, but is polishing up quickly.

 

Excellent. How did you get yours to slurry so well. My slurry stones just want to glide over the hones.

 

I will stop reading this thread I do not need another razor. So I will booby trap this thread to stop the temptation.

 

Have you had a Russian cookie?

 

I use a DMT. It's very hard to slurry with the dressing stones.

 

Took me about 25 minutes to work out the chips and polish it out. And I didn't go below the Dragon's Tounge stone. Its tree topping hairs now, but I don't have high hopes for this shave.

 

Comrade, your revolutionary spirit is admirable but misplaced. Embrace the Motherland and she will Embrace you. Da, the Proud Sons of the Revolution await you.

 

Makes sense. I don't own a DMT, so, I will have to figure something else out.

 

Hopefully it holds the edge better than the last shave.

 

Try wrapping a piece of sand paper around the slurry stone.