I love these moments. eureka level +1! I've been -almost obsessively - tinkering around with my stones. Mainly my; la verte, Dressante and Ozuku.
I've been having a bit of bother with a Crown and Sword razor that just wouldn't get smooth. I honed on my coticule refreshed with the BBW and everything seemed fine - HHT 3-4 - all good but it seemed to break up during shaving. Under the microscope, it was a bit scratchy.
I worked out that it was super hard steel and I hadn't honed enough. I ended up applying alot of pressure with a semi skimmed slurry - or slightly thinner, pretty light slurry anyways - as I was afraid of slurry dulling so I reset the bevel after dulling it. I honed for half an hour, rinsed the stone refreshed with my tomonagura a couple times and after the bevel was near mirror finish and was sucking to the stone, I moved to my Ozuku. I did roughly two sets of 30 light halfstrokes on water without the thumb on the spine - too much pressure and I get rough edges on my ozuku - then I did between 50 and 100 super light laps on the ozuku and 5-10 leather strops and I was good to go.
It was the smoothest, sharpest edge I have ever shaved with that I honed myself, up there with Gary's edges. I now have a new standard for my edges, I love these moments.
Refreshing the coti with the tomonagura seems to give good results, like refreshing with the BBW, I've still to experiment a bit more but, it seems to work well.
kind regards
Alex
I've been having a bit of bother with a Crown and Sword razor that just wouldn't get smooth. I honed on my coticule refreshed with the BBW and everything seemed fine - HHT 3-4 - all good but it seemed to break up during shaving. Under the microscope, it was a bit scratchy.
I worked out that it was super hard steel and I hadn't honed enough. I ended up applying alot of pressure with a semi skimmed slurry - or slightly thinner, pretty light slurry anyways - as I was afraid of slurry dulling so I reset the bevel after dulling it. I honed for half an hour, rinsed the stone refreshed with my tomonagura a couple times and after the bevel was near mirror finish and was sucking to the stone, I moved to my Ozuku. I did roughly two sets of 30 light halfstrokes on water without the thumb on the spine - too much pressure and I get rough edges on my ozuku - then I did between 50 and 100 super light laps on the ozuku and 5-10 leather strops and I was good to go.
It was the smoothest, sharpest edge I have ever shaved with that I honed myself, up there with Gary's edges. I now have a new standard for my edges, I love these moments.
Refreshing the coti with the tomonagura seems to give good results, like refreshing with the BBW, I've still to experiment a bit more but, it seems to work well.
kind regards
Alex