Thread: I want a Lynn honed razor. Opinions?

You sound like me. I love to sharpen knives, and have been using these two old Norton Oil Stones, 11.5x2.5 for years now. You can shave with my knives, that's how I got into this...Anyway. SRD and Lynn is great. You can't go wrong with them. IMHO. They have the best prices on Dovo razors. Lynn is the becnch mark for sharpness with a lot of guys. You'll be happy with a Dovo Tortoise scale razor it sounds. Save up and get yourself a Mastro Livi Razor. I love mine. Also, You may eventually get a silver tip badger. They are top of the line, and if you don't get one now, you may buy one later....

Rich

A well honed razor just mows down hair. Picture standing a bunch of unsharpened pencils up on end on a table, and then swiping your hand across the table. The pencils just fall.

Different grinds will effect how it feels even though the razor can be equally as sharp, but a truly sharp razor will allow you to work more on your technique.

I caught RAD (razor aquisition disorder) a little over a year and a half ago. It sounds like it has a good hold on you too! Of my collection of ~25 razors, I find the Bokers and the Henckels to be the most user friendly and the easiest to hone to a "shave ready" edge. Not that I am a honemeister but I can tell the difference between blades that are uncomfortable and ones that "wipe" the hair from your face. I don't like DOVO only because I got one with a warped blade and I heard that was not an isolated complaint.

Only one other thing, check out www.shavingshop.com as well, they have some Bokers on sale right now.

Have fun with it.

Originally Posted by straightcrazy

I caught RAD (razor aquisition disorder) a little over a year and a half ago. It sounds like it has a good hold on you too! Of my collection of ~25 razors, I find the Bokers and the Henckels to be the most user friendly and the easiest to hone to a "shave ready" edge. Not that I am a honemeister but I can tell the difference between blades that are uncomfortable and ones that "wipe" the hair from your face. I don't like DOVO only because I got one with a warped blade and I heard that was not an isolated complaint.

Only one other thing, check out www.shavingshop.com as well, they have some Bokers on sale right now.

Have fun with it.

Yeah, Bokers are sweet looking blades. But I've only seen ones that are way off the shave ready mark (antiques that are rusty), and need to be honed. And since I don't have that equipment yet, I haven't bothered to buy any. I have my eye on one, a King Cutter, but I'm hoping I can talk the vendor down a bit. It has pearl on the tang. But it needs some cleaning up and some honing and he wants way too much for it right now. Well, for me, it's a bit much. Especially since it needs work. Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks he wants too much for it, because he's hasn't sold it yet, and I've been looking at it since late July, just before I signed up here. I really like that razor. I can tell it would clean up well. And the edge, while certainly not shave ready, looks to be evenly honed.

Originally Posted by straightcrazy

I caught RAD (razor aquisition disorder) a little over a year and a half ago. It sounds like it has a good hold on you too! Of my collection of ~25 razors, I find the Bokers and the Henckels to be the most user friendly and the easiest to hone to a "shave ready" edge. Not that I am a honemeister but I can tell the difference between blades that are uncomfortable and ones that "wipe" the hair from your face. I don't like DOVO only because I got one with a warped blade and I heard that was not an isolated complaint.

Only one other thing, check out www.shavingshop.com as well, they have some Bokers on sale right now.

Have fun with it.

Thanks. You obviously picked a good name for yourself. I only have one razor that I can shave with at the moment, and the other is a Swedish razor, whose name is long, and I can't spell at the moment, but is in the good brands section of this website. I can't wait to get that one shave ready. I've already sanded off the grunge and she's nice and shiny. She just needs to be honed. I know she already cuts hair, because I can take hair off my thigh with it; I have a big silly bald patch there. And, it looks like whoever honed it before, did it pretty evenly.

Originally Posted by zib

You sound like me. I love to sharpen knives, and have been using these two old Norton Oil Stones, 11.5x2.5 for years now. You can shave with my knives, that's how I got into this...Anyway. SRD and Lynn is great. You can't go wrong with them. IMHO. They have the best prices on Dovo razors. Lynn is the becnch mark for sharpness with a lot of guys. You'll be happy with a Dovo Tortoise scale razor it sounds. Save up and get yourself a Mastro Livi Razor. I love mine. Also, You may eventually get a silver tip badger. They are top of the line, and if you don't get one now, you may buy one later....

Rich

As gorgeous as those Maestro Livi razors are, there's no way a guy in my position should even be thinking of those blades. Besides, if I were ever in that position, I would probably look to Max or Alex for a custom, because I really admire the work they do. Maybe after ten or so years of shaving, and hopefully a better financial situation, I could look at a Livi, but yeah, I'm so broke, I shouldn't even be looking at them right now. They are beauties though, I agree. But I'd rather first support the fine work of members here.
Like the set I want, with the strop it comes with, I would still want to get a Tony Miller artisan one day. Those are true works of art. And I always like the idea of buying straight from the designer themselves. Cheers to small businesses.


And yeah, I love knives of all kinds. I'm a pretty good cook too, and appreciate a good chef's knife.