wdwrx
Well-Known Member
I though I was stubborn bastard, but my new razor has me beat. It seems to have a serious case of micro-chipping.
I started yesterday by killing the edge and doing a typical dilucot, but it took an ungodly number of laps and re-freshes to get the bevel reset, eventually i went back to my EZY-lap and started all over again. After a bunch of trips back, I was still unable to get any kind of HHT result. Violin maybe. After 10 (10!) attempts, I finally gave up for the night.
This morning, I decided to lug out the micro-scope and see what the hell was going on. You can imagine my surprise when I saw the the edge looked like a jack-o-lantern's grin! "Holy smokes!" I thought. I realize in hind sight that I could feel those bits of metal in the slurry. I was experiencing all kinds of wierd, un-explained slurry contamination..... I kept having to clean my stone, I changed my clothes, washed, brushed all the stray arm hairs away. It didn't occur to me that what was contaminating my slurry was actual chunks of the razor!
So then I though it might be worth a try with the thurry, so i worked a nice thick slurry and worked that out, and that seemed to help; looking under the microscope, it seemed to clean up all the chipping, but I was looking for that nice coti edge, so I went back to the coti with a very light misty slurry, and a single layer of tape, and worked a nice slow dilution out again. Checked with the scope, and the darn chips are back!
So what's the best way to go from here? More tape?
I'm thinking thurry to coti w/water.
My impression is that this razor is a little harder than any I've yet come across, so my assumption is that it may be brittle, though the area of chipping is worse in one specific spot.
Word, doods!
-Chris
I started yesterday by killing the edge and doing a typical dilucot, but it took an ungodly number of laps and re-freshes to get the bevel reset, eventually i went back to my EZY-lap and started all over again. After a bunch of trips back, I was still unable to get any kind of HHT result. Violin maybe. After 10 (10!) attempts, I finally gave up for the night.
This morning, I decided to lug out the micro-scope and see what the hell was going on. You can imagine my surprise when I saw the the edge looked like a jack-o-lantern's grin! "Holy smokes!" I thought. I realize in hind sight that I could feel those bits of metal in the slurry. I was experiencing all kinds of wierd, un-explained slurry contamination..... I kept having to clean my stone, I changed my clothes, washed, brushed all the stray arm hairs away. It didn't occur to me that what was contaminating my slurry was actual chunks of the razor!
So then I though it might be worth a try with the thurry, so i worked a nice thick slurry and worked that out, and that seemed to help; looking under the microscope, it seemed to clean up all the chipping, but I was looking for that nice coti edge, so I went back to the coti with a very light misty slurry, and a single layer of tape, and worked a nice slow dilution out again. Checked with the scope, and the darn chips are back!
So what's the best way to go from here? More tape?
I'm thinking thurry to coti w/water.
My impression is that this razor is a little harder than any I've yet come across, so my assumption is that it may be brittle, though the area of chipping is worse in one specific spot.
Word, doods!
-Chris