rattlerviper
Active Member
After trying dilucot razor after razor and always ending up having to put the unicot edge on it I did something different tonight. I set the bevel on the slurried coti, I stayed setting the bevel far longer than normal probably 20 minutes (is this where I was going wrong before?). Having read a post by Sir Bart stating that the keenness level was higher on a BBW I rinsed my gear created a slurry on that side and began the dilucot dilutions, it took around 40 minutes till I was at a stage where it looked like water. I rinsed my gear again and flipped back to the coti side and did one pass to raise a slurry and did 45 x-strokes. Rinsed it all and did 100 strokes with just water. 60 passes on the linen and 60 on the leather. HHT4 after stropping, this is the first time I have honed that it passed HHT.
I have just shaved with the sharpest razor of my life, and yes I have had a pro sharpen my razors. I think I made too many variables for myself to figure out what I did right
: When I attempt this with just the coti it almost seems like it produces slurry way faster than I can dilute it and I get a jump back and forth between thinner, thicker thinner yet thicker. I don't think it's from evaporation (but I do live in a desert)because it happens within 15 or 20 passes. Maybe Ray will know if it is shear evaporation since he lives in the same area.
Whatever I did I had a blast when the hair went pop pop pop time and time again:w00t: Getting a razor to that point is pretty neat stuff.
I have just shaved with the sharpest razor of my life, and yes I have had a pro sharpen my razors. I think I made too many variables for myself to figure out what I did right

Whatever I did I had a blast when the hair went pop pop pop time and time again:w00t: Getting a razor to that point is pretty neat stuff.