As planned, I deconstructed the Revisor tonight. After checking the bevel ,( perhaps for the first time, really understanding what I was looking for) I realized that this was a factory bevel and definitely needed re doing. I started with the Cretan hone and slurry with half strokes for a lot of laps.
turning grey and definitely cutting metal( but as usual with that great Cretan mirror polish, even at 3 k!) I kept refreshing as I went to push strokes and circles. adding water when needed to keep slurry from getting too thick. then onto X strokes and a dilucot to plain water and 50 laps on rinsed stone and plain water.
cutting leg hair now no problem.
onto my Deep rock coticule and fairly thick slurry. Start with circles for 6-8 laps then onto some push strokes and then X strokes. Probably 70 total laps. Then onto dilucot and finish with 50 laps of X strokes on plain water ( rinsed coti).
Onto Zulu with 1200 DMT slurry. Circles to start for 5-6 laps then x strokes with no dilute for 20- 30 laps. Then start a dilute by dipping blade in cup every 10 laps. Then fully onto pure water and 50 laps here dipping into water every 10
30 on linen 50 on leather and the tests look great. we'll see tomorrow.
SHAVE REPORT;
No go. Still 'sticky' for lack of a better term. Did 40 laps on the escher on water for the second pass ( after using the boker) and that didn't help that much( although it did a little). Going to put it on the JNat later today. Otherwise I will chalk it up to the blade itself.
On the other hand the Boker was stellar with the strop and still silky smooth.
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