Hello guys, new member here from Spain.
First of all I’m amazed with the quality of the information on this board, the scientific approach and the will to learn even discarding common stablished knowledge.
I don’t have a BESS tester yet but it will be my next knife related purchase, thanks to KG and the correlation he created between BESS and traditional sharpness tests I can suspect than my usual edges for pocket knives are on the neighbourhood of 80-100 BESS (push cutting rolling paper with the grain) and the best I can get around 30 BESS (feathering hair but not quite crosscutting rolling paper). Anyway,
I’ve been shaving with a straight razor for 7 years now and have restored 4 of them, the problem with the OP razor could be, discarding burr remnants, that the spine is quite a bit worn, lowering the effective honing angle.
You could tape the spine to raise the angle and try again or maybe you could benefit from the micro convexing Todd S. suggests on his blog scienceofsharp stropping on a hanging strop.
Hope it helps.
Regard from Spain,
Mateo
First of all I’m amazed with the quality of the information on this board, the scientific approach and the will to learn even discarding common stablished knowledge.
I don’t have a BESS tester yet but it will be my next knife related purchase, thanks to KG and the correlation he created between BESS and traditional sharpness tests I can suspect than my usual edges for pocket knives are on the neighbourhood of 80-100 BESS (push cutting rolling paper with the grain) and the best I can get around 30 BESS (feathering hair but not quite crosscutting rolling paper). Anyway,
I’ve been shaving with a straight razor for 7 years now and have restored 4 of them, the problem with the OP razor could be, discarding burr remnants, that the spine is quite a bit worn, lowering the effective honing angle.
You could tape the spine to raise the angle and try again or maybe you could benefit from the micro convexing Todd S. suggests on his blog scienceofsharp stropping on a hanging strop.
Hope it helps.
Regard from Spain,
Mateo