hi lads, just a quick qusestion ? on average how often should you hone a razor.
thanks in advance
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hi lads, just a quick qusestion ? on average how often should you hone a razor.
thanks in advance
The average guy hones it when its dull. Some hone before it gets dull, some hone after it gets dull.
I hone my blades once a month, whether they need it or not. They could go longer, but why bother. I miss honing them.
I have too many to hone them all each month but if I go more than a month without honing a couple I just seem to get mean and ornery.
We're not trying to be funny here. You just hone them when they need it whether its after 10 shaves or a 100.
What everyone is saying, is it's basically a personal thing. When your razor starts to drag on your face and stropping no longer does the trick, you probably need to do some work. Check the WIKI for razor tests. You could try some pastes, like chromium oxide, or the Diamond pastes, .5 or .025, or a Coticule, maybe the Norton 4/8k. Whatever you have...
For the normal guy, a honed razor should last 2-3 months between honings depending on beard type, etc.
Lynn
Lynn,
As smokelaw observed, there may be none of us who are normal. :rofl2: I have always wanted to count myself among that number but seem to keep running out of digits. :cry: I've honed a few razors for myself, thanks to your DVD tutorial, and seem to have done it successfully. I've even redone it on a few of the favorites which seem to get used much more frequently than a few stragglers in the rotation.
So, thanks for the help and counsel and I'll try to see if I can fit into that 2-3 month window. Oh, oh, that was for the normal guys. Hmmmm, that will probably change a few variables, maybe even some of the constants.:gaah:
I think I should probably plan on always keeping my coticule loaded.:w
I'd say, open to any criticizism that would befall me, that atleast 40% of the time I'm rehoning because of something I've done on the strop rather than just normal long term dulling.
AFD,
You know this admission isn't terribly reassuring for most the of us who think we may be borderline competent, or approaching normal as Lynn said. :cry:
:gth Does this mean the whiskers may have won game, set, and match??
OMG, does this further indicate that the cognoscenti should invest in Norelco futures? AFD, say it ain't so.:bow
Actually, I know how it goes as I thought at one time the world's short hairs were well held within my grasp. And now I learn that either there are a lot more short hairs out there or my grasp is not nearly as strong as I thought it was... or both. :eek:
No, I just re-hone more than "normal". I recommend everyone have a stone and know how to use it. I wouldn't invest in Norelco, Ford maybe . . . even my taxes go to keeping them solvent.
I think there is an important connection between strop pressure and stock values though . . .
I must be weird! :roflmao Lynn honed one of mine a few months back. Other than using a pasted strop (CrO from Lynn and Don on a Tony Miller paddle) every 2 weeks, and pre-shave stropping, mine have stayed wonderfully sharp. It is a Geo Wostenholm&Sons 6/8 round point. My other one I bought shave ready in the classifieds (a generic 6/8 round point) gets the same treatment.
I just bought my first hone from Howard, a Norton 4000/8000. This week I also plan to buy a Shapton 16000 from him as well. I have previously purchased a few razors on ebay that I am going to learn to hone with. When I get that down I am going to hone a nice Dovo that I picked up last week.
'Strop til you drop' to extend the life of the blade.
I can get away with honing for up to 6 months.
I just used diamond spray for the first time on one razor. I was amazed to see the razor pass the HHT (I know this is not a good test), just like it was after honing. I will shave with it in a little while and let you know of the results. I also do not know for how long I can keep up this hone escaping charade...-)
Al raz.
Success!!! At least for the moment, I was able to obtain the coveted sticky feeling.... hummmmm
Not sure yet how the diamond spray is going to work in the long run.
Al raz.
on SRP and one that really can't be answered accuratley...
I always give the same answer, Hmmmmmm the exact same one as Lynn did :hmmm: I think that man might know a thing or two :rofl2:
One thing I have been adding to this lately is that as you get better at, Stropping, Prep, and Razor Angle/ Shaving Technique the time between honing increases....
Time between honing seems to be so subjective as to be useless. If you get to choose between 40 razors to shave with each time, it could be a year(s) before any specimen gets used enough to need honing. If you have the same 40 razors to choose from and end up using the same 2 almost every time, honing will come a lot quicker for those two. If your face moonlights as industrial scrubbing abrasive on your nights off, shaves between honing would be much smaller than the fellow sporting that milky white peach fuzz. Common sense here, no more, no less. I would say if daily stropping does little good, and nothing gives you that “gee, wiz” feeling that you used to get when shaving with a given blade, it is time to hone. I have never counted, but I am pretty sure I get about 40 shaves on a specific blade before little voices tell me the edge needs a serious refresh. It is actually much less frequent than I would have thought necessary. This is on my blades that I think I have “gotten it right”. And I do tend to touch up on the CrOX when ever things don’t seem to be as good as they were the last time.