Thread: Honing help needed pls.

Hello all!

Thank you for your replies! I'll try to ask for more details on each item... Just to be sure...

Anyone seconds SteveS on sending the razor back? I would only send it back if it really has a problem, and not because my knowledge is *very* limited. Just let me know what's your opinion (of course I would contact CS and ask theirs, but I won't do it unless you indicate that it's really the case to do it). I don't want to bother people with warranty claims and then to find myself being wrong about it.

About sending it to a honemeister... It seems I'll do it, if I find anyone in Europe to want to do it for me - very good (I'll describe the problem), if not..... ( (but the alternative would be to give the whole thing up)

As for having first grade shaving gear... I had lots of alternatives, mostly cheaper. But... if my wife agreed... I went for something I really dreamed for (Christmas and birthday combined gift). I just hope things will work out and I'll be able to shave and not only admire the razor.

Draga Sergiu
Dont change the coticule (it is the ideal size)
Send the TI to someone who knows honing
Buy a second razor to learn honing knowing from the first, how sharp must be a straight razor.
Hone the second razor, test shave,
dull it with different methods(corc, match, writing chalk, one pass,two pases etc), hone it, test shave, dull it, hone it, test shave etc. , etc until you feel that the results are not luckily and you are confident that you have the possibility to produce a fine edge if a razor is dulled.
Probably for this, you need and a coarser stone.

Bun noroc si bune rasaturii (if I remember well Limba Romana after 25 years...)

Well! Now that's a surprise! Glad to see I'm not the only one speaking Romanian on this forum (it would have been much easier if I knew someone in my hometown familiar with honing, but I don't really think I'll find anyone, maybe some old barbers... with their old methods). Thank you again for the advice, I believe I will look for a way to send the razor for honing to someone knowledgeable.

Originally Posted by xxscorp

Well! Now that's a surprise! Glad to see I'm not the only one speaking Romanian on this forum (it would have been much easier if I knew someone in my hometown familiar with honing, but I don't really think I'll find anyone, maybe some old barbers... with their old methods). Thank you again for the advice, I believe I will look for a way to send the razor for honing to someone knowledgeable.

From 1976 to 1982 I was student of chemical engineering in Politechnical Institut of Iasi