garyhaywood
Well-Known Member
i've got to a stage where i have thought i'm probably doing to to many dilutions . could i get as good a result with less.
so i have been starting out with a real milky slurry, not coffe cream. less slurry less dilutions . i was still able to set bevel on my la patite blanch. i diluted as usaul with 15 to 20 laps per half sets. my lpb is only 125x40 still great size.I also checked arm hair cutting as i went along and tpt just for a change and see what was happening. this is what i noticed. i tryed this on three differant layers and all were the same.
the arm was poping of bvel setting. so just cutting arm with some resistants. so dilut e ed from there also bevel was under cutting slurry. i did a couple of dilutions , and checked arm hair and to my surprisemant the edge was not cutting. so i did a nother set much lighter and the came back straight away. i'm persuming this normal as with back and forth strokes pressure can cause just that, all though the razor is still being sharpend. the tpt seemed the same all the way throught slurry stages.i did only 10 dilutons and when was at the end the arm hair was being cut and the tpt was not sticky sharp but pritty grabby. i then finished on 50 laaps with misty coloured water and 50 laps on water only normal x light strokes. the hht was bang on, the tpt came alive after the water strokes big time.
it seems like most of the sharpening kicks in at the very end .
i found starting out with not so creamy slurry worked a treat, took less sets to dilute as there was not loads of slurry from the start. So it can be done with less sets.
i have done this on three razors, and they all came up to par efortlessly.
if i was doing serious bevel improve mant i would be inclined to use heavier or creamier slurry, then drop down to milky slurry for the rest.
it amazed me how in slurry stages there seemed very small changes and at the last couple of stages the razor became sticky sharp.
how many dilutions are you guys averaging?
i normaly don't count but i reckon i have been averging 20 to 30. i also reckon this is due to starting out with too much slurry.
so i have been starting out with a real milky slurry, not coffe cream. less slurry less dilutions . i was still able to set bevel on my la patite blanch. i diluted as usaul with 15 to 20 laps per half sets. my lpb is only 125x40 still great size.I also checked arm hair cutting as i went along and tpt just for a change and see what was happening. this is what i noticed. i tryed this on three differant layers and all were the same.
the arm was poping of bvel setting. so just cutting arm with some resistants. so dilut e ed from there also bevel was under cutting slurry. i did a couple of dilutions , and checked arm hair and to my surprisemant the edge was not cutting. so i did a nother set much lighter and the came back straight away. i'm persuming this normal as with back and forth strokes pressure can cause just that, all though the razor is still being sharpend. the tpt seemed the same all the way throught slurry stages.i did only 10 dilutons and when was at the end the arm hair was being cut and the tpt was not sticky sharp but pritty grabby. i then finished on 50 laaps with misty coloured water and 50 laps on water only normal x light strokes. the hht was bang on, the tpt came alive after the water strokes big time.
it seems like most of the sharpening kicks in at the very end .
i found starting out with not so creamy slurry worked a treat, took less sets to dilute as there was not loads of slurry from the start. So it can be done with less sets.
i have done this on three razors, and they all came up to par efortlessly.
if i was doing serious bevel improve mant i would be inclined to use heavier or creamier slurry, then drop down to milky slurry for the rest.
it amazed me how in slurry stages there seemed very small changes and at the last couple of stages the razor became sticky sharp.
how many dilutions are you guys averaging?
i normaly don't count but i reckon i have been averging 20 to 30. i also reckon this is due to starting out with too much slurry.