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I've had a very frustrating time of late trying to hone the blades for my Rolls, the normal techniques I use for my straights don't seem to be effective on the Rolls blades. I am guessing this is because the angle of the blade to the hone is different when the blade is honed in the 'box' rather than flat on the stone.
I read over on SRP that someone was thinking of using lapping film on the Rolls hone so I gave it a go, I carefully prised out the hone and used it as a template to cut a piece of 5 micron 3M lapping film I had left over from a previous project, after carefully applying this to the hone and reassembling it back into the case, I gave the blade a good few laps with just a dab of water on the film. (I should add that I remove the guard bar when honing/stropping as I can't stand that 'double slap' racket!)
After a vigorous amount of stropping in the case I gave the blade a test shave, what a difference! The shave was very close to the result I get from my straights, so for anyone struggling to get the Rolls shave ready I would suggest giving this a try.
I read over on SRP that someone was thinking of using lapping film on the Rolls hone so I gave it a go, I carefully prised out the hone and used it as a template to cut a piece of 5 micron 3M lapping film I had left over from a previous project, after carefully applying this to the hone and reassembling it back into the case, I gave the blade a good few laps with just a dab of water on the film. (I should add that I remove the guard bar when honing/stropping as I can't stand that 'double slap' racket!)
After a vigorous amount of stropping in the case I gave the blade a test shave, what a difference! The shave was very close to the result I get from my straights, so for anyone struggling to get the Rolls shave ready I would suggest giving this a try.