Honing in the uk

I have just bought my first straight razor could anyone help with where I could get it honed in the uk as I have never done it before

Hi, and welcome to SRP.

I don't know if there are people in the UK already offering honing services or not.
I live in Belgium and have honed razors for some of our Irish and UK based members. Shipping within the EU is reasonably safe and cheap.

Send me a PM if you are interested and we can work something out.

Btw, have you tried shaving with it as-is (just stropping)?

Give us more details about your razor, please. It might be shave ready, but the odds are heavily against it.

I know that both Bruno and Alex (LX_Emergency) are European based honers, although there is a fair community here of people living in the UK.

I can do it if you need someone UK based. At the moment I'm thinking of somewhere around £10 for honing a new (or reasonably good condition) razor, including return (uninsured) postage. I'm not too keen to do major edge work on ebay 'rescue' cases at the moment - sorry! :fim:

Send me a PM if you're interested.

Cheers,

Iwan :)

Iwan honed my straight and did a fantistic job, I'd certainly reccomend sending a private message.
I'd taken a small chunk out of my blade so sent it to Iwan, it came back shave ready and sterailsed in a matter of 2-3 days.
Fantastic job done, As you can see, I cant praise him enough :bow and will certainly be contacting him for more honing when I get the need
Pete

Thanks for the kind words. :)

That's quite an impressive turn around time.

Thanks to all who have replied to this I will be giving Iwan a call to find out where to send razor, I have bought two shave ready razors from Suzuki a SRP member who also sent me two spare razors to practice on when he sent me the two I bought