Thread: Best newbie honing setup.$250

Believe me, I won't be shaving with anything I hone for a long time. Feather blades tug and pull on my beard if I use more than twice. I enjoy a smooth shave too much to suffer irritating shaves at the hands of a hack hone job by yours truly...What I do plan on doing, is getting 2 beater razors. One wedge, and one hollow, for practice honing, and my imps will go to Lynn for the foreseeable future..

One question is the cheap poor mans strop by whipped dog, suitable for cro-ox? Or am I better off with that balsa shim whipped dog provides..or spend yet more $ on a paddle?

Gssixgun is right the new video he made with mark is amazingly helpful here is the link YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Thanks everyone. So here it is...
I bought a notion 4/8 k
A La Veinette Coticule 200x50 from ardennes
These will be on standby, ill try to wait 6 months but I doubt that will happen.
Also have
3” Dovo XL strop
Whipped dog strop
Balsa from whipped dog
Red imp 132
Red imo 133

That folks is my setup!

Put your effort into learning how to strop well and you could make your edges last a very long time between professional honings, or even touch ups on CrOx. Apart from that bit of advice, your setup looks eminently workable.

I wish you well in your endeavours!

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Put your effort into learning how to strop well and you could make your edges last a very long time between professional honings, or even touch ups on CrOx. Apart from that bit of advice, your setup looks eminently workable.

I wish you well in your endeavours!




James.

Thanks..
Im gonna lock the hones away til after summer. I just couldn't help myself from buying them..
Well maybe I'll mess around with a junker for fun..
Regards,
Basil

It's terrible to think of that coticule just languishing until the summer. You had better find someone willing to use it for a couple of months, "break it in" for you so it's ready when you want to start using it.

-----Michael

HAD happens! I told Glen, heck promised, that I would stick with the Norton 4/8 until the Yakima meet on Cinco de Mayo. So what did I order last week? Naniwas! I am a bald-faced liar!

Now everyone knows.

Originally Posted by Chefbaze

Thanks..
Im gonna lock the hones away til after summer. I just couldn't help myself from buying them..
Well maybe I'll mess around with a junker for fun..
Regards,
Basil