Originally Posted by
JayR
I love this forum and spend way too much time reading it (ask my wife ). Although I've wet shaved for quite a while I'm new to SR and often feel like I'm five years old trying to hang out with my high school brothers, especially with the honing topic. Like a lot of people I'm on limited budget. I'm especially confused about the barber hones. In some discussions it comes up that their grit equivalent is actually fairly low-mod range and there are lots of inconsistencies between stones which makes me think I would be better off to try and get just a 10 or 12 thousand grit finisher, but other times the barber hone seems like it would be the perfect Stone for me to get started with just to maintain my own razors, as long as I have them well honed to begin with by somebody who knows what they're doing . The bottom line: if I already have 1 or 2 straight razors that come to me truly shave ready, am I better off getting a swaty two or three line or getting an off-brand finisher like a Chinese 12K, or something else? Thanks in advance.