impster said:yup. that's 'dwelling' on my mind already...
not sure when my rolls was used last - certainly not in the last few years. There's a good sub forum on B&B just for the rolls, and I've cleaned as much as I could using that guide. In the absence of anything else, I've olive oiled the strop (not that it was too dry), and did around 100 passes on the hone.
I've a feeling that if I did a good few hundred passes on the hone that the blade would recover even further, maybe i'll do a hundred a day until saturday. Then maybe I'll try that ATG on the neck...!
Arrowhead said:Thumb pad works well for me because I'm used to it, but the hanging hair is probably the best indicator of a really sharp edge. To paraphrase Neil: some razors shave well but won't pass the HHT, but all razors which do pass will shave well. That said, it's a cause of a great deal of grief amu pongst honers ...
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