Share your Shave of the Day for Sunday!
Nov. 9, 2025
- Brush: Zenith MOAR BOAR
- Razor: EldrormR Industries MM24
- Blade: GEM PTFE (1)
- Lather: House Of Mammoth - Santa Noir - Puck
- Post Shave: Stirling Soap Co. - Unscented - Aftershave
- Osma: Osma - Osma
- Scuttle: Georgetown Pottery - G20
Happy birthday, MM24! You’re 4 years old today.
So how did I celebrate? As much sub exclusive gear as I could manage. Santa Noir (the for /r/wetshaving version), MOAR BOAR, and of course, the MM24.
Overall a great shave on a snowy Sunday.
CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 3 days ago
2025-11-09
I bought the cheapest soap and brush. It’s fine. I had a bad shave today though. There was a lot of irritation and blood spots. I didn’t chase the super close shave to save my face. I had bought new stones and honed and it looked good: all scratches went out each step and it did the hanging hair test. Still my edge gets ruined extremely quickly in the shave. I already use two layers of tape to make it stronger and the steel is fresh. I thought my edge broke down because of my bad lower grit stones didn’t set the bevel correctly. So I bought the shapton glass 3k but it didn’t help enough. I also honed my Koraat the same way and then used my mystery natural stone but it didn’t turn out well: still big scratches left, didn’t do the hanging hair test at all and felt not keen to my finger skin. But when I shaved with it, while lacking sharpness it was smooth and my skin was fine and I didn’t have any blood at all… So I am very confused!
walden@wetshav.ing 3 days ago
Honing seems like half science and half “need lots of experience to be comfortable knowing what you’re doing”.
Are you only taking it up through 8k? People here always seem to recommend and use up through 12k. I only have a 10k which works great for me, but I haven’t experienced anything different.
CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sorry, I wasn’t very clear. With 0.85 I mean the Shapton Glass Seven 0.85 micron stone. The 8k is about 1.8 micron and their 16k is 0.92 micron so this one would be 16k+ rated. But they don’t rate their “seven” stones with a K number.
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 3 days ago
Here is some of the science that @walden@sub.wetshaving.social refers to:
Most of us take a while to figure out how to get a BBS shave with no nicks or irritation from a straight razor. To get there takes a combination of a very slick lather, low shaving angle, and good control of the razor. It takes patience, but the payoff has been worth it for most of us. It is pretty rare (I’ve not seen it) that someone has a beard so tough that a straight razor edge is “broken down” by one shave. I suggest that you consider this may be more of a technique issue than a steel issue.
As for your stone progression, there’s nothing wrong with what you have. I provide sharpening of knives and razors as a service. If you want, I will hone your razors using Glass Stones on a similar progression to yours, but without tape. This will give you a baseline for your own efforts.
CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thanks for the big write up! The first point sounds so logical so it’s surprising that I did manage a smooth shave out of the Koraat with its much thicker bevel. I’ll try to go without tape in the future or at least try reducing it to a single layer and see how that goes again.
For the second point, I’ll take your suggestion and pay more attention to the shaving angle!
The money is a bit tight so I’ll have to figure it out on my own I’m afraid. That is also why it is good to hear that my progression is fine. I watched that JPO video where he goes over weakness in the steel from making large jumps in grit so I was afraid I needed something in between 3k and 8k. I’ll just practice some more.