Early 1800's Bengall Cast Steel straight razor shave & some brief hone-talk

Bengall Cast Steel straight razor

Honed using;

(No tape)
Shapton Glass 220
Chosera 1K

2 layers of tape (tape used to speed up the process, compensate for some of the unevenness in the spine & to increase the angle to give the softish steel a bit more support.)

Coticule (La Grosse Blanche) dilucot method
HandAmerican CrOx on kangaroo
Ken Schwartz 0.1 CBN on nano-cloth

Very nice shave!
Smooth & different...in a good way!
This almost 200 year old steel is quite something.

It was an honor to hone & shave with a true Family Heirloom!




BeBop groove by Kevin Macleod - "Faster Does It"
THANKS!

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[MrKnifeFanatic]

BTW, how would you like to be a hone-meister for straightrazorstogo? ;o)

[shellacscales]

@MrKnifeFanatic

I'd be honored to!

As long as I don't have to use that title ;=))

You got my email & such, drop me a line & we'll talk!

[jrcrow79]

You should REALLY use electrical tape....even double it it you are doing more work..saves honewear for the future owner :-)

[shellacscales]

@jrcrow79

It had a very worn edge & uneven spine/honewear.

By setting a really good bevel on this one without tape I saved the future owner a lot of grief. Using tape from the beginning would just have screwed up the geometry even more.

I see this a lot on old wedges. Folks claim they "don''t get as sharp as a full hollow" well, no doubt, since the angle is way out of proportion.

This now has a healthy 17degree/side & w/ 2 layers of tape for the work after the bevel is set ~19 degrees

[MrKnifeFanatic]

Another good one