Thread: I want a Lynn honed razor. Opinions?

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.