What Straight Razor Have You Honed Lately????

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

  1. ischiapp

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  2. Claude Stewart

    Claude Stewart Well-Known Member

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  3. ischiapp

    ischiapp New Product Bloodhound

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  4. Claude Stewart

    Claude Stewart Well-Known Member

    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.

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  5. TestDepth

    TestDepth Well-Known Member

    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.
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    Happy honing.
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  6. Claude Stewart

    Claude Stewart Well-Known Member

    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.

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  7. Claude Stewart

    Claude Stewart Well-Known Member

    They look like great shaving blades.
     
  8. TestDepth

    TestDepth Well-Known Member

    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
     
  9. ischiapp

    ischiapp New Product Bloodhound

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

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  10. Claude Stewart

    Claude Stewart Well-Known Member

    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.

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  11. Steve56

    Steve56 Hone Hoarder

    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.

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  12. Claude Stewart

    Claude Stewart Well-Known Member

    6/8 Diamante

    Full hollow ground with a Nice heavy blade.

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

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  13. Steve56

    Steve56 Hone Hoarder

    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.

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  14. ischiapp

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  15. DaltonGang

    DaltonGang Ol' Itchy Whiskers

    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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  16. ischiapp

    ischiapp New Product Bloodhound

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

    Claude Stewart Well-Known Member

    5/8 A.W. WADSWORTH & SON BOSS

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  18. lottenhem

    lottenhem Well-Known Member

    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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  19. gssixgun

    gssixgun At this point in time...

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    Another Dovo Frown ala Convex honing :signs107:


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  20. Claude Stewart

    Claude Stewart Well-Known Member

    Maher & Grosh Famous Toledo Blade;

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

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