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What did you hone today?

2nd attempt on a newly acquired TI 69 wedge. 1st attempt I didn’t set the bevel properly. I think I got it this time, the shave tomorrow morning will confirm. Same stones as last time, but made sure that I got a burr on both sides for the whole length.

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This Friodur 17 needed a touch-up badly, so went down the Kuromaku 5k, Super Stone 10k and finished on the SG20k. Love this hefty razor, and the SG20k edge provided a smooth and satisfying test shave this morning.

I probably won’t wait long to refinish the edge on a Jnat since I finally repaired my Mejiro nagura that had developed a nasty pit. Sanding rocks is a lot of work! I sanded enough so that the pit is not on the rubbing surface. But, I only removed about half of that pit, so I will have more wet sanding to do at some point.

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This blade was sharp enough during yesterday's shave, however it didn't feel good to me. Alejandro ships his Ale razors with a synthetic 12k edge and I don't usually care for how a 12k synthetic feels. Today I kiiled the edge then gave it a full treatment. 3k Ouka, 5k Rika, 8k King Gold and then a semi-synthetic Morihei Hishiboshi Extra Fine Karasu. Finished on translucent Arkansas. Edge tests with packing peanut and HHT were awesome, looking forward to the next save with it.
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Forgive the wonky pic. A couple of Kikuboshis tonight. The 2002 was honed on a nagura progression starting with tenjyou this time, and the SK-1 got essentially the same treatment as the other day, synth progression and then Escher. It's a lot easier for me to manage the curves on a little stone like that.
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More honing practice for me on the synthetics before I return to my JNats. Using this Manaslu 55 test razor, I’m working primarily on my rolling x-stroke using the Kuromaku 1.5k and 5k, Super Stone 10k, and finally the Suehiro Gokumyo 20k. Plan on testing this edge tomorrow. AHT was promising, and I managed to get this one honed fairly evenly from toe to heel. Test shave will be the ultimate judge of that consistency though.

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Easiest thing to do is lay a half width piece on each side so it hits the whole spine and then snip it in a few spots so it will lie down on the top.
Slight revision to that, if you're going to be replacing the tape with any frequency, just lay a full strip on each side and don't worry about folding it over. Since I needed to revisit the razor anyway, I decided to extend the bevel. The existing bevel was only about to the left arrow, maybe not even. I cut a new one over to the second arrow (you can see a faint pink Sharpie witness mark that I put there as a guidepost). The razor is ground to take a bevel at least that far, and that evened out the curve from toe to heel on the actual cutting edge. It did take a little time on the Shapton 1.5k and a few tape changes but I'm happy with it now. After that it was Shapton 5k, Fuji, Naniwa 12k and then Escher. I thought about doing a mikawa nagura progression after 5k but after cutting a new bevel I didn't think I had the patience and focus for that.
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