I recently acquired a neat little SE travel safety razor that uses a fairly common for the time half hollow ground blade. I am slowly coming up to speed on maintaining a blade like this, basically a piece of a straight. Thanks to Bayamontate I have a properly sharpened blade and some diamond solution which I applied to the denim side (from an old pair of shorts) of a starter strop. The blade he honed for me is very sharp.
Being a hands on sort I dove in and am practicing honing on a corner chipped spare blade. Getting there but still a way to go on my technique.
This is probably nothing new to you guys more familiar with straights but I noticed that as the blade is getting closer to hair popping potential it seems to "stick" to the smooth leather of the strop on a pass. It is a very noticeable feeling since I keep one finger on the blade to steady it. It feels in perfect contact with the leather and drags like a vacuum has been created under it. Is that an indicator of getting close to a proper edge?
Being a hands on sort I dove in and am practicing honing on a corner chipped spare blade. Getting there but still a way to go on my technique.
This is probably nothing new to you guys more familiar with straights but I noticed that as the blade is getting closer to hair popping potential it seems to "stick" to the smooth leather of the strop on a pass. It is a very noticeable feeling since I keep one finger on the blade to steady it. It feels in perfect contact with the leather and drags like a vacuum has been created under it. Is that an indicator of getting close to a proper edge?