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Stubborn Razor

Woo hoo! Success! :sleep:
She shaved like a dream! And the edge held up perfectly.
Not sure if it was the extra tape or the extra steel I removed, but this little baby is moving to the top of my rotation!

And I think that the coti powder pasted strop made a difference in the edge qualities as it was more forgiving than I remember my usual Thüringer edges being.

I am mighty pleased with myself B)
 
Hi, Chris--How did you apply the coti slurry to the strop? Did you use just water or an oil mixture, eh? (you mad scientist, you) Later, dude. Dennis
 
Dennis, I tried to reply this morning, but lost the post... again... doh!

I just used a bit of neet's foot oil as it's a leather strop. Mixed it with my precious bit of coti dust and pasted away. Rubbed it in good and let it dry overnight.

I'm actually kind of impressed with the effect. I wrapped the hanging strop around my paddle strop and pulled it tight before stropping about 40 laps. It really jumped the HHT from a 0 to at least a 2. And it seemed to leave such a nice edge.

Now I can't help but wonder what BBW powder would be like, though I haven't even begun to explore my Blues.... yet.
 
I have some of the suedelike strops that I think a water based application may work better than oil. I am a little leery of oil ever since I overdid it with my first attempt. Thanks for all the info, Buttwhee. Your suthern bud, D.
 
Chris--intrigued by your mad experiments, I thought I would jump in. I took a la dressante bout and a black, coarse DMT and rubbed them together under a BARELY DRIPPING faucet with a sauce pan in the sink below. It only took a couple minutes of scrubbing to cover the bottom of the pan with yellow liquid. You can easily see when it is thick enough, but it probably doesn't much matter, since I "reduced" the mixture over medium heat on the stove. After it cooled, there was a layer of coti dust stuck to the bottom of the pan. I used a plastic hotel room key (I keep them all and have thousands--many,many uses around the shop) to scrape the dust and then just applied it with my fingers to a "suede" strop. No drying overnight! Total time expended was less than twenty minutes. I used a loom strop, not that it matters, and it covered completely and I still have tons left over. Haven't used it yet, but it looks very promising. Later, eh. Denny
 
Oh Good! I'm glad someone else is willing to try! I try these crazy things... but sometimes i think I'm the only one! Unfortunatly... I can't shave as often as I can try something new... and I'm never quite sure if my results are just the product of wishful thinking... or my technique, or just a fluke.
Please do keep us posted.
 
OK, Chris, here's what I did. I took an unsharpened but nice ebay W/B and did a full dilucot, linen/leather to a great hht. I already had a great shaving Boker and I stropped it thirty times on my loom strop loaded with coticule dust to a great hht. (In other words, it didn't back up) I also took another Boker (I really like the trees) and did a full dilucot, straight to the coti dusted loom and then linen/leather and another good hht. Off the stone, the dusted strop raised the hht quite a bit, but I think it went up further after regular stropping. I had a full days beard and alternated with the three blades. The W/B gave a typical very smooth coticule shave. Both the Bokers did the same, but they felt like it was impossible to pick up skin. They were even more coticully. I could not tell the difference between stropping on the coti dust before or after leather but it was just one test. Really smooth and very little tingle with the alum block or alcohol. I have been rating my blades with 0-10 for keenness and smoothness and marking them with a blue magic marker. The W/B I rated 8/8 and both Bokers were 8/9. I have never met a 10. Hope to, though. Great idea, Bart and Chris. I will keep at it, but wouldn't be surprised to use the dusted strop a lot. Wonder if it will hold up after doing it once and then just normal stropping maintenance. Going on a trip, so I can't continue the experiment for four more days. Let us know how purple dust works. With the softer edges, it could be very interesting. Watch out for bear traps up there. Denny
 
Here's a quick up-date on this stubborn old girl, if I can be forgiven for dragging this old thread up again:
I wasn't impressed with the Thüringer edge she had as i seem to get ingrown hair from edges off that stone, and after getting the bevel angle calculator figured out, I'v been trying to keep all my edges as shallow as i can, so i didn't want to use any tape, I finally took her back to the coti and managed to get what seems to be a nice dulicot edge.

Checking under the scope shows just a very few, very small, micro chips. About on par with a slightly used edge... if that's clear at all. Nothing that looks too scary.
Makes my think the issues were the result of some type of corrosion that weakend just the exposed bevel. And fairly hard steel.

One thing I noticed was how little wear the bevel seems to be getting. For all the honing I've done on her, the width of the blade has shrunk a barley noticable amount. There was a tiny little bit of muting on the spike point, set that way from the original grind, and I haven't even come close to wearing that away. Very surprising.
Up on the shelf she goes... waiting with the other razors I haven't got enough face to use.:thumbdown:
 
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