Great second shave with this pretty straight after some edge refreshment.
I had gotten myself some polystyrene beads which promptly confirmed my feeling from yesterday that there’s a tuggy, duller part of the edge. I feel a bit dumb that I haven’t looked for such a method to debug edges before. Armed with this new knowledge, I fixed this edge, and got carried away and honed two more straights for good measure. It had never made sense to me before to hone multiple straights at once because of the need to test shave afterwards 😅
It’s not that I didn’t get sharp edges before, but the process was a buy stochastic: hone for a bit, shave some hair from the back of my hand, decide I should hone some more, decide it’s time for a test shave, reiterate.
I’m really happy with this particular new edge, and I had as smooth a shave as one can wish for with an uncoated blade. Tomorrow, I’ll be using one of the other razors I’ve honed to confirm that this method of testing leads to consistent results. Fingers crossed.
Now I’m off to prepare the apartment for Djunior’s third birthday party. It’s going to be a loud day with lots of happy screaming children.
Eighth Day of TabOKtoberfest
Great second shave with this pretty straight after some edge refreshment.
I had gotten myself some polystyrene beads which promptly confirmed my feeling from yesterday that there’s a tuggy, duller part of the edge. I feel a bit dumb that I haven’t looked for such a method to debug edges before. Armed with this new knowledge, I fixed this edge, and got carried away and honed two more straights for good measure. It had never made sense to me before to hone multiple straights at once because of the need to test shave afterwards 😅
It’s not that I didn’t get sharp edges before, but the process was a buy stochastic: hone for a bit, shave some hair from the back of my hand, decide I should hone some more, decide it’s time for a test shave, reiterate.
I’m really happy with this particular new edge, and I had as smooth a shave as one can wish for with an uncoated blade. Tomorrow, I’ll be using one of the other razors I’ve honed to confirm that this method of testing leads to consistent results. Fingers crossed.
Now I’m off to prepare the apartment for Djunior’s third birthday party. It’s going to be a loud day with lots of happy screaming children.
Stank++;