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08-01-2009, 11:55 PM #1
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Thanked: 41So what is your routine?
Well I may or not be a newby. I have been shaving with a str8 since late Dec. You call it.
My routine is: I have an 8 day rotation of blades. I make them all SR. I then use them one by one. When a blade needs work it goes to the back of the rotation. I then have a 7 day rotation. I go this way usually until I have a 4 day rotation of SR blades. I then will touch up all the blades, usually on a Barbers hone and possibly on a chrom ox or diamond str
op. I then repeat the 8 day rotation.
What do you guys/women do?
Mark
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08-02-2009, 01:44 AM #2
I grab one out of the collection and use it. When it starts to pull a little I hone it. I have my favorites but use all that I have. No set order!
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08-03-2009, 04:14 AM #3
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Thanked: 2209My routine? Well, I have none. I will hone a razor, shave test it, hone it shave test etc. until I like it. I will continue using that razor until I hone another razor for somebody else or one of my own. I do not have the most razors of the guys here on SRP but if I honed one per week it would take 15 years to get them all honed!
Rotation? Ya gotta be kidding me!Randolph Tuttle, a SRP Mentor for residents of Minnesota & western Wisconsin
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08-03-2009, 06:13 AM #4
I have no routine these days. I shave whenever I can get away with it and count myself lucky to have a sharp razor. Such is the life of this stay at home dad. *sigh*
X
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08-03-2009, 10:23 AM #5
Hmmm,
I like the idea of rotating through my razors but I currently shave with one until it starts pulling or getting duller and then move on to the next one. I stay with one until its in need of some TLC not on a frequent rotation.
Then to the next, I of course have my favorites...as we all do.
I also am always on the hunt for my next purchase.
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08-03-2009, 10:53 AM #6
I have about 14 razors. Usually I vary from day to day which one I use. A lot depends on what mood I'm in.
When a razor is dull I put it a side until I have three or four that are ready to be honed.Last edited by Otto; 08-03-2009 at 11:38 AM.
"Cheap Tools Is Misplaced Economy. Always buy the best and highest grade of razors, hones and strops. Then you are prepared to do the best work."
- Napoleon LeBlanc, 1895
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08-03-2009, 04:10 PM #7
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Thanked: 155I have six razors, and I use them more or less in a regular cycle. When a blade needs honing, I hone it and return it to its place in the cycle.
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08-03-2009, 07:07 PM #8
Cry, sniff, sniff. I only have one good razor, sniff, sniff, blubber, blubber. shave with the same one every day. Easy choice for me.
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08-04-2009, 12:21 PM #9
I'm buying razors so dam fast it's getting hard to go back to one of the old girls.
But seriously, ... I am serious.
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08-04-2009, 07:15 PM #10
I have two and so far I'm planning on just using the one till it needs honed and then using the other while the first gets sent out to be honed