Been awhile but i've been honing and shaving religiously, just not posting. Become enamored of the unicot technique for getting that perfect edge every time, just by putting a layer of electrical tape on the spine for creating a micro bevel. the great thing about it is that it works SO consistently.
It's a coticule technique but today I decided to try it with my Jnat stones. this '65 russian has been a pain in the ass and today I realized why, the bevel is REALLY uneven and it probably has a warp to it as well so I took out the cretan hone to do some bevel correction
dry rubbed the cretan with it's own slurry stone making a powder first, THEN adding a few drops of water to make the slurry. works really well this way.I love this stone, it is SO versatile. It can reset a bevel or take a blade to shave ready. Crazy.
SO lots of half strokes and pinpointed honing to correct the uneven bevel.
Finished on water just cause it was fun.
Then onto my Nakayama 2
started with soft uchi slurry and circles. then onto chu nagura slurry and X strokes then Oozuku slurry and more X strokes. Things were picking up well and it was getting keener with each slurry change( oozuku slurry stone below)
finished on clean water and X strokes to polish up the bevel as much as possible before moving onto the micro bevel.
Next up the Oozuku stone and tomonagura slurry made with a DMT. I've taken to this method more and more lately as the DMT lets me use the exact stone's slurry instead of guessing which stone- bout or base stone, make the slurry.
30 X strokes here to finish the polish then add one layer electrical tape and re build slurry:
30 X strokes here as well then rinse all and finish with 50 X strokes on pure water.
40 laps on linen 50 on Buffalo strop and 20 on palm:
Shave report;
Freaking PERFECT! Didn't know if I had over done it but it was a perfect just about one pass shave. Had brought out my Wade and Butcher pure wedge and did use it for the second pass but it didn't hardly pick any hair up!
NICE! Also taped the W&B and did 30 x strokes on the Escher followed by 30 on water and it was as keen and QUIET as could be. Great fun!
