I honed 3 razors today. My gold dollar (it had been 6 months ), one marked "Ill-Mo" and "made in Germany", and the troublesome one.
I'm using my coticule and it works quite well so far.
The troublesome one is marked Amendola Brothers/Amendola Special.
I did have two small nicks that took a very long time to hone out, so I touched them up with a small diamond file to work them down a bit.
I re-set the bevel and then went to 1 and 2 layers of tape, which worked great on my other 2 razors. I'd been at it for a while, so maybe I'll try again tomorrow.
The edge looks good, and consistent along the length of the razor, and after testing it on my arm and neck hair, I found it does easily shave thumbnail.
It barely touched the hair on my arm, and did nothing to the hair on my neck, irrespective of angle.
The spine doesn't show a lot of wear. In fact, it barely shows any. Seems weird to me...
Any suggestions, honemeisters?
I'm using my coticule and it works quite well so far.
The troublesome one is marked Amendola Brothers/Amendola Special.
I did have two small nicks that took a very long time to hone out, so I touched them up with a small diamond file to work them down a bit.
I re-set the bevel and then went to 1 and 2 layers of tape, which worked great on my other 2 razors. I'd been at it for a while, so maybe I'll try again tomorrow.
The edge looks good, and consistent along the length of the razor, and after testing it on my arm and neck hair, I found it does easily shave thumbnail.
It barely touched the hair on my arm, and did nothing to the hair on my neck, irrespective of angle.
The spine doesn't show a lot of wear. In fact, it barely shows any. Seems weird to me...
Any suggestions, honemeisters?