Red russian redux.

Dulled Red Russian  on glass

used les lat slurry stone to build slurry on deep rock coti, same as before.
5 laps of 30 half strokes, check arm hair. still very dull

5 laps of circles, just barely starting to shave.

3-4 more laps of circles and half strokes. refresh slurry when it gets down to glass/water. 3 times or more.

Don't understand why in dilucote you're not supposed to refresh the slurry. what do you do when it absorbs or drys? if you wet it it starts the dilution which is not supposed to happen until AFTER it shaves arm hair.

so I refresh and hone away.

13 laps in it kind shaves arm hair.

switch to la dressante and dilution

push strokes in sets of 10 with dilute after each. one spritz from spray bottle.

5 laps at least until watery

wash blade but not coti, 15 X strokes on almost water

switch to la vert on water

50 x strokes no pressure

test leg hair :uh not great.

50 more x strokes on big les lat on water

about the same


ack
then I notice it has  more hone wear on the spine than I had noticed and realized it probably was like my white russian that worked great when honed from scratch with one layer of tape

BUT I got my new ozuku asagi and botan slurry stone in today and decided to test that and see if it needed to be taped or not.

dulled it again :((

built slurry with botan nagura on the ozuku.
half 5 laps of half strokes refreshing twice
cut arm hair!!!!!easy
3 more laps and one more refresh feeling sharp already.
switched to hard uchi stone and build fresh slurry
30 push strokes parallel on sets of 5 reps. med pressure. refresh once

clean blade and stone karasu slurry
15 x strokes  refresh
15 x strokes
dilute a bit
15 slow x strokes

test: shave arm and leg hair easy. less than 3/4 of the time

40 laps linen
60 laps leather.

we'll see tomorrow.

I am seriously impressed with these Japanese stones. The ozuku is beautiful when wet. Dry it's pretty drab.


Shave Report:

It must be the Russian red as it was pretty "eh" today. Halfway decent first pass then second pass with brown russian which with NO stropping still held a great great smooth sharp edge.

I think I will use a unicot on the Red today and see what that brings.