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So, the sharpening.The weapons for the job were a norton 220/1000 combination and a 4000/8000 combination water stones, with a norton flattening stone to flatten the water
stones.Last night i...

Well a sharpened my razor tonight and had a shave with it and OMG:dropjaw: it was such a smooth shave, man i just cant figure out if it was that a carbon steel blade has a different feeling to a...

That looks brilliant, thank you very much.

And much to my wifes dismay, i may have found two more old razors in need of similar treatment.:dropjaw:

Well gentlemen, I have made a second attempt with this razor.It was back to the 320 grit in emery tape, then wet and dry up the grades. I would have to say its far from perfect, but when i look at it...

Yup, i felt like lightning mcqueen getting schooled by doc hudson on the dirt track when i realized that under the crud was where the actual work started.



Thanks heaps, this is the part of the...

well some progress made, not entirely sure if it is foward progress though.Spent quite a few hours on this today as i had a roster day off.started last night with the scotch bright type kitchen...

hi Havachat,
Im currently shaving with a boker from SRD which was professionally honed.

actually it may be this stuff in older packaging.


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Ok thanks guys, I wasnt planning to fully break it down or anything, looking at it i dont think there is any pitting anywhere on it, my thoughts were to give it a clean up and then evaluate it from...

I Bought a norton waterstone three piece set from SRD, which consists of a 220/1000, 4000/8000 and a flattening stone.

The first thing i was planning on doing was cleaning up the blade, my plan...

Hi Guys, my name is James and i just wanted to ask a question or two about reviving an old razor.

Firstly just to explain a little bit about my self and my straight razor shaving abilitys,...