Week Three

[jeffegg2]

Well, so far my honing is not up to par. Shaved yesterday with my best try so far and the results were disappointing. Better than the first try at honing, but still sub-par.

Shaved this morning with the shave ready razor and wow! A world of difference! My stropping seems to be doing well!

Received Lynn's DVD this morning so that will give me something to review.

[dward]

A few questions come to mind. Was the razor shave ready when you received it? If so, why would you be honing it so soon? If it was truly not shave ready, then I'd bite the bullet and send it out to get honed by a professional. Believe me, it's worth the $25. It's better to work on your shaving techniques first than trying to figure out if the problem lays in the honing or the shaving technique. Also, good job in getting that CD. It's worth its weight in gold.

P.S. I'm originally from Jackson...

[jeffegg2]

A few questions come to mind. Was the razor shave ready when you received it? If so, why would you be honing it so soon? If it was truly not shave ready, then I'd bite the bullet and send it out to get honed by a professional. Believe me, it's worth the $25. It's better to work on your shaving techniques first than trying to figure out if the problem lays in the honing or the shaving technique. Also, good job in getting that CD. It's worth its weight in gold.

P.S. I'm originally from Jackson...

It was not shave ready. I have two, one that I've been trying to hone myself, and a second that is what I think is shave ready.

[spechobbies]

Lynn's DVD is phenomenal! I bought an inexpensive razor to start on. I did not mean cheap.

[mbrando]

Hi,

When I tried to hone an ebay razor I bought, it was giving a bit of greif. I turn out my approach was off.

What is your hone setup like?

I have the 220/1000 and 4000/8000 norton set. What I found works well for me is to make sure you have set you bevel on the 1000 and cut arm hair there. Then I go back and forth from stone to stone like 15 on 1000 then 15 on 4000 then 10 on 1000 then 10 on 4000 if the edge progresses well I do the same for back and forth (pyramid sceme) on 4000 to 8000 then 8000 to my barbers hone then linen strop to barbers hone then leather strop.

This works most times for. Hoever the other day a friend came by with a few razors he had. The first 2 were in done about 40 minutes. Hair would leap from your arm. The last razor just did not want to take an edge. Or I should say only half of it would, about mid to heel was really sharp, but the mid to tow felt like a butter knife. while it was not a straight cutting edge, it looked like it was angled up a bit, I thought it would hone up. I gave up on that one.

Cheers

- Mike

[jeffegg2]

I am assuming that the purpose behind the pyramid system is to prevent the over honing problem of a wire edge while still building to a nice smooth shaving blade.

But there has to be that initial bevel to start with or all the work is for naught, and you'll have to start all over again.

My current setup:

Norton 220/1000, 4000/8000. (both lapped)

Filly ruprazor.com strop with cr-ox .5micron on one side.

I have a 12k chinese stone on the way to me for a light final polish.