StraightRazorDave
Well-Known Member
Hey all,
So I tried my first honing with number 15 from the vault, the La Grosse Blanche stone. Since Bart's report on it, I'm a little hesitant to try dilucot with this stone since it is hard to gain enough keeness to the edge from slurry to using just water. So I just decided to try a simple unicot since it's quite straight-forward to use.
The razor I used is a 5/8" Boker King Cutter, and it was shave-ready. But since I wanted to sharpen from scratch, I did the regular dulling on the edge of a glass lightly so I would no longer shave arm hair. I created a fairly heavy slurry on the stone, and did a bunch of diagonal back-and-forth strokes until it would cut my arm hair. Then I followed standard procedure for the unicot.
Well I just had my shave and it was very smooth! No complaints at all, and when I used my alum block is only on a little spot on my neck where it was previously irritated, so not caused by the shave. So a very smooth and comfortable shave!
This stone really feels different to hone on, I like it though. When used with just water, it's not at all gritty and you don't feel resistant, but at the same time can almost feel the hone cutting finely. The only way I can describe it is that it's like you can faintly feel the texture of the surfacing when honing. Bart's evaluation of this stone says that when used with water there is "a faint sensation of very fine abrasion.", so I guess that's what he was talking about.
Anyways, I'm really happy with this stone. With the unicot method, I turned a dull razor into a great shaver in no more than 10-15 minutes I would say.:thumbup:
Maybe I will try the dilucot method with this stone someday, but I'm not feel too ambitious lately so I'm more than happy with just using the unicot with it.
Dave
So I tried my first honing with number 15 from the vault, the La Grosse Blanche stone. Since Bart's report on it, I'm a little hesitant to try dilucot with this stone since it is hard to gain enough keeness to the edge from slurry to using just water. So I just decided to try a simple unicot since it's quite straight-forward to use.
The razor I used is a 5/8" Boker King Cutter, and it was shave-ready. But since I wanted to sharpen from scratch, I did the regular dulling on the edge of a glass lightly so I would no longer shave arm hair. I created a fairly heavy slurry on the stone, and did a bunch of diagonal back-and-forth strokes until it would cut my arm hair. Then I followed standard procedure for the unicot.
Well I just had my shave and it was very smooth! No complaints at all, and when I used my alum block is only on a little spot on my neck where it was previously irritated, so not caused by the shave. So a very smooth and comfortable shave!
This stone really feels different to hone on, I like it though. When used with just water, it's not at all gritty and you don't feel resistant, but at the same time can almost feel the hone cutting finely. The only way I can describe it is that it's like you can faintly feel the texture of the surfacing when honing. Bart's evaluation of this stone says that when used with water there is "a faint sensation of very fine abrasion.", so I guess that's what he was talking about.
Anyways, I'm really happy with this stone. With the unicot method, I turned a dull razor into a great shaver in no more than 10-15 minutes I would say.:thumbup:
Maybe I will try the dilucot method with this stone someday, but I'm not feel too ambitious lately so I'm more than happy with just using the unicot with it.
Dave