Thread: I dropped and chipped my razor before my second shave with it!

There are also the classifieds and a couple of other really great vendors. There are so many razors out there its hard to decide what to try next. I just want to try them all. Where you are also changes what vendors will work best.

Ah well, lesson learned and you won't be doing that again any time soon I am sure. Dropped a razor meself once.

Bob

Yes lesson learned. I only have my self to blame for being so careless and disrespectful to the razor. My first shave went well and I likely became cavalier. But in a way this is a good lesson going forward and I now have a signature quote as a reminder to my self.

And here it is below

+1 to not honing it yourself and sending it out. You're putting the horse before the cart, big time.

Again its to late I already honed it up to a 5k stone. Im waiting for the 8 and 12ks to arrive. In the mean time I did 3 passes on a paddle strop with Bark river white compound (about 12k grit) to release the burr. I then took it to the microscope with one of my wife's hairs. I tested my progress and managed to pop or peel the strand at every test touch. I'm not saying its shave ready; but I feel confident. Its not that I don't have the resources to hone it myself. Everything boiles down to finding the proper stroke for this particular razor and being consistent.

In all actuality, I am becoming more acquainted with this razor by learning how it needs to be honed.

However with that said I do heed the advice to send it out. I understand But If I don't at least try, I wont sleep so well!

Try shaving with it so you know what the razor feels like at this point, then shave after the 8K, then after the 12K. Doing it like that will help you learn as you go because you'll be able to compare how everything feels. I almost want to say that you should try to get the best out of the 8K before you use your 12K, but that's up to you. I personally would because you should be able to get a shave ready edge off an 8K (years back that's as high as people would finish on), and once you can get a good edge off the 8K, you'll get that much better of an edge off the 12K...
Again, that's all up to you of course! The main idea when learning is to get as many reference points as possible so that you're not flying blind

If you can't get the same quality of edge that you had when you first got it, send it out so that when it comes back your shave ready reference point has been restored.

Originally Posted by Fort

Again its to late I already honed it up to a 5k stone. Im waiting for the 8 and 12ks to arrive. In the mean time I did 3 passes on a paddle strop with Bark river white compound (about 12k grit) to release the burr. I then took it to the microscope with one of my wife's hairs. I tested my progress and managed to pop or peel the strand at every test touch. I'm not saying its shave ready; but I feel confident. Its not that I don't have the resources to hone it myself. Everything boiles down to finding the proper stroke for this particular razor and being consistent.

In all actuality, I am becoming more acquainted with this razor by learning how it needs to be honed.

However with that said I do heed the advice to send it out. I understand But If I don't at least try, I wont sleep so well!

I am going to say this and hope I don't hurt your feelings: "You don't have any honing ability." How in the world do you think you are going to do a blade repair and hone? Release the burr? We don't create burs honing, that's a knife thing. There is a reason we recommend that you learn to shave and then work backwards from touching up a razor to learning to hone. These guys are trying to steer you in the right direction and be polite....do yourself & your face a favor and listen. Your journey will be a much smoother one.