Finishing with the C 12 k

Decided to test out some of my other stones after my Zulu binge,:))

Dulled my german Sunrise 5/8 on glass and started over with my new oil soaked cretan hone and slurry. Actually had a hard time getting this to shave arm hair and it surprised me. Lots of half strokes and circles and x strokes.

Had to go to a dilute and then things started to happen.

Then went to my La Verte Coticule on slurry and started with circles. Now it was sharpening fast and it was good to use my La Verte and see it working again. I another dilute and finished on water and it was pretty keen. Definitely shaveable but that was not the experiment

Brought out my Welsh Thuringian and did 20 laps on water and this really brought the edge up! Surprising. Should have stopped there but this was about the C 12 k

Splashed on some water and did about 60 laps and it felt very good and leg hair tests were good but not excellent.

20 on linen and 30 on leather then let it rest overnight

Shave report:

20 on linen and 40 on leather  and the shave was good but not great. Definitely not a one pass shave but nice. No tugging on pulling and it got my chin and stache area no problem. Second pass was with a 5/8 russian finished on zulu and I could immediately tell the difference.

Tomorrow. the Sunrise goes on the zulu and the russian goes on the Uchi for further comparison.