Thread: and another person joint the club of the obsessive shavers...

thanks for your help I will tell you th results. The strope still looks like new and I was very careful with my wrong stopping.

Originally Posted by kahunamoose

Wow, 120 stropping strokes in the wrong direction is actually an achievement. Not a good achievement, but defiantly noteworthy!!!

I was impressed. I wonder how many others have tried the same and kept quiet about it.
While the blade edge may be well rolled, I doubt there is any permanent / bad damage. It might be worth doing some correct stropping then some light pyramids, more stropping and test shave.

and yes I watched the dvd now several time and I read nearly everything on this page about honing.

Originally Posted by berlinguyinca

thanks for your help I will tell you th results. The strope still looks like new and I was very careful with my wrong stopping.

As you probably know by now you can roll the edge of a sharp razor by improper stropping. There is a barber textbook writeup on honing and stropping in the help files here that might give you something to go with. If it was me I would get a cheap ebay or antique shop razor to practice honing on. Send the other one out to a honemiester or back to the vendor for honing. Like Bill S said, then you will have something to go by in your own honing + something to shave with.

Originally Posted by berlinguyinca

thanks for your help I will tell you th results. The strope still looks like new and I was very careful with my wrong stopping.

I have to admit I am still shaking my head in bewilderment. You say the strop is unharmed?

i post a picture of it when I get of work to get your evaluation of the strop.

and yes I got no issues to admit it, after all it's a hobby and we all need to learn and try to stop further generations from doing the same mistake

From the original post it sounds like the blade was run over a finger nail.

Doesn't that mess up the edge?

What type of damage does that actually cause? Does it just roll the edge?

I've only been straight shaving for a few weeks now so I'm still pretty new to all of this.

I'm also going to suggest that you strop it properly before sending it to be honed or honing it yourself. If you were careful enough not to shred your strop, you just might have a shaving edge on there. Strop the hell out of it and try again.

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Your list of stuff you got shows that you definitely did your homework before buying. There's only one other thing I'd suggest as a fellow newb: get a second straight razor. One that you can *practice* honing on. Buy a cheapie off of ebay. Then send your good razor to a honemeister. That way you can compare your honing work to how sharp a straight can really be. You will be *very* surprised to find that your definition of "sharp" will change dramatically when you see how sharp a professionaly sharpened blade is. I thiink alot of new guys quit straight razor shaving when they get several uncomfortable shaves from a razor they sharpened themselves. If your straight shaving is not every bit as comfortable as the shave you get from a DE, Mach 3, or Fusion, you are doing something wrong. Chances are very good that your blade isn't sharp enough.

Originally Posted by Rajagra

I was impressed. I wonder how many others have tried the same and kept quiet about it.
While the blade edge may be well rolled, I doubt there is any permanent / bad damage. It might be worth doing some correct stropping then some light pyramids, more stropping and test shave.

I remember that rolled the edge the first time I stropped. It is only natural, right? This is the way that you use a butter knife. I was lazy and did not strop much and did it very slowly, so I was "saved"... ;-) I bet the percentage of the newbies that do this is higher than people would imagine. The realization comes after the second shave ;-).