Finally ready for a shave! Honed on a shapton 1k, 8k, then 5, 3, an 1um film. Bench stropped then hit the hanging strop. Passed the hanging hair test and wiped the hair straight off my arm.
Lmao! I would still use the Lansky. It's so easy a caveman.. Oh wait.... But yeah it's pretty fool proof. There's quite a bit of stones that you can get for it also and I always get a mirror shined shaving sharp edge (with using the ceramic and leather attachment)
Thanks Drew! It's a lot of fun restoring these old cut throats. Now hopefully it'll be a shaver for another hundred years.
Anytime Kevo! It's good to see history being restored. I think my grandpa had one of those, or similar, and it brought back some lost memories.
That's awesome! I've got similar memories of my grandad in a a shirt shaving with nothing but a razor and hot water lol.
Mine used a brush and he lathered some kind of lotion. Old spice I think. Gotta keep the memories though and they're good to have.
I've seen some at the thrift stores. What I'd like to get are some of the old Avon after shave car bottles. My grandma sold it back in the day and had the bottles on display.
Cleaned up and started sharpening the double bit and another axe head that was hiding on the back of my dad's workbench. Before After Still need to take them to the stones.
Got myself a fresh piece of leather for the acrylic bench strop. And for those on the fence or thinking "meh I don't need a strop", stop it and go get one. I just got this sak about a week ago, factory edge intact. And this is what it'll do after about 15 laps across some leather lol. Now I'm gonna have to shave my damn arm.
Sharpened up a couple of filet knives tonight, and that was a test of patience. Lots of blade flex makes for very little pressure allowed on the full length strokes.
