Thread: Getting my blade near Boston shave-ready

Well I have some good news: I went in to Leavitt & Peirce today and they are willing to send it to their honing masters, free of charge! Because their pickups happen early on Friday, I'll have to wait till next week, and then get it back the week after. But I won't have to mail it.

In the meantime, I'll keep working on my technique… Glad to hear that once that improves, I'll get to experience a very nice shave!

Fingers crossed.

Remember, it's a learning process.

Originally Posted by ansibil

Well I have some good news: I went in to Leavitt & Peirce today and they are willing to send it to their honing masters, free of charge! Because their pickups happen early on Friday, I'll have to wait till next week, and then get it back the week after. But I won't have to mail it.

In the meantime, I'll keep working on my technique… Glad to hear that once that improves, I'll get to experience a very nice shave!

I think Leavitt and Pierce is a nice old shop, but it is possible that their honing master was the issue in the first place. Since barbers typically use shavettes with disposable blades these days, there aren't many people around (outside of an enthusiast community like this one) who know how to hone a razor.

So if you continue to have issues, don't give up -- connect with one of the mentors who have offered their help.

BTW, it took me about a month when I started before I got shaves that made me happy. But it was a month well spent and well worth it!

I wish I could remember the name of the place where the clerk said that their honing is done!

I think their honing service provider is located in Revere, or maybe Lynn. I've not bought a razor from L & P, or used the honing service, but my impression in walking into the store on several occasions has been that they sell their new razors as received from the factory. Add to this that the razor was apparently a store display model sold at a discount, then there may well be a need to send it out for a honing.

Glad to hear that they were willing to send it out gratis. Hope it works out for you. When it returns, if you can post some pix of the bevel and edge as received before shaving with it, I'd appreciate it as I will be curious to see how it looks.

Originally Posted by Brontosaurus

I think their honing service provider is located in Revere, or maybe Lynn.

Well, I hope that honing service is in Lynn. Because if it's in Revere, the razor could come out the way it went in, but... that never happens in Lynn.

Originally Posted by jmabuse

Well, I hope that honing service is in Lynn. Because if it's in Revere, the razor could come out the way it went in, but... that never happens in Lynn.

It's a bad sign when you have to explain your own joke but here goes -- there's an old rhyme about Lynn's reputation:

Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin
You never come out, the way you came in
You ask for water, but they give you gin
What looks like gold is really tin
If you're not bad, they won’t let you in
It’s the damnedest city I’ve ever lived in

Originally Posted by jmabuse

It's a bad sign when you have to explain your own joke but here goes -- there's an old rhyme about Lynn's reputation:

Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin
....

Note one of the better honemasters we know is named Lynn.
If a razor goes into his shop his reputation is that it will come out nicely finished.

Originally Posted by niftyshaving

Note one of the better honemasters we know is named Lynn.
If a razor goes into his shop his reputation is that it will come out nicely finished.

Indeed - that was my first thought!

Didn't Lynn found this site?

Originally Posted by ansibil

Indeed - that was my first thought!

Didn't Lynn found this site?

Yikes, no disrespect intended to Lynn Abrams! We are all the beneficiaries of Lynn's work in setting up this site.

I was referring (as the thread was) to Lynn, Massachusetts, a coastal town north of Boston:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn,_Massachusetts

Lynn is about two miles north of Revere, Massachusetts, also mentioned earlier in the thread. Lynn, Massachusetts was established in 1629 and is named after the town of King's Lynn, which is in Norfolk, England.

I hope this resolves any and all concerns in the matter.