Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - May 15th, 2024
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 4 months agoAwesome photo! A normal person looks at it and says, “how could you use all that!”. A shaving nerd looks at it and says, “Oh, I have that one.”, “Yes, that’s a great scent.”, “I love having that brush.”, and so on.
But … look at the etch and gold wash on that razor!! Wow! Great find! Looks as if it was very rarely used. I assume that the geometry, was near perfect.
I’m quite familiar with Yoshihiro knives, but was unaware they had a line of whetstones. Was there a feature of these stones that attracted you, or did you just want to try something different? My coolest synthetics are my Matukusuyama stones. I don’t have them in grit sizes fine enough for razors unfortunately, but love using them for knives.
whosgotthepudding@sub.wetshaving.social 4 months ago
Only had the factory bevel on it by the time I got to it! This morning was it’s first use in almost 100 years!
The Yoshihiro’s I’d actually picked up quite some years before even getting in to wetshaving. I had originally grabbed them for my woodworking tools and kitchen knives. They had come recommended to me at the time from a gentleman I used to talk with quite a bit. The set came in 1k, 3k, 8k. They’ve been great stones. Very consistent. I have really enjoyed them.
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 4 months ago
Lots of times the “brand” stones tend to be made for them by a stone manufacturer. Naniwa is pretty well known for this. They can, apparently, make stones to a specification. The black Kramer synthetic stones are made by Naniwa. I’ve never used them but I’m told they are of exceptional quality and not a copy of some Naniwa stone.