3 Attachment(s)
Northern England - couple of questions
Wondered if I could seek some advice on a couple of points.
1st, I appear to have a nick in the blade of my SR. It's so tiny I can't even get it to appear on a photograph, & I've tried with a decent camera & my mobile. It's probably about 1cm from the toe, & you can't even see it unless you really look. You can just feel it if you run the blade along your thumbnail. Sizewise, it's a fraction of a millimetre (like a pin head) in both depth & width, just that little bit where the edge of the blade shines when it catches the light. Even stropping seems to have reduced the amount it catches on my thumbnail, but it doesn't get rid of it. I've shaved once a couple of days ago when I first noticed it, & I can't say it caused me any problems, it just bothers me as I'm new to this & the razor is only about a month old. I have no idea how it happened or how long it's been there. Should I be getting it honed straight away, or do you think I'm okay to leave it until it needs honing?
Attachment 117865Attachment 117866Attachment 117867
which leads me to my 2nd question, does anybody know anywhere in the North of England (I'm in Castleford, West Yorkshire) that does honing? I can't for love nor money seem to find anywhere, & all of my local barbers look at me like I'm a dingbat, some of them are even confused by the word "honing". It doesn't helping walking into a barbers when I'm a member of the folicly challenged club either. I did check the SRP classified sections but didn't see anything in the UK. Please correct me & direct me if I'm wrong.
Failing that, I would consider honing it myself with something gentle, but the Naniwa stones are too expensive for me (okay to expensive to explain the cost to the wife), & so are the Norton's, not that I can find anywhere to purchase the Norton's in the UK.
Would the 12K Chinese Waterstone at the bottom of the
Razor Hones
be a suitable starting hone just for touching up the edge, or are there any of the others that you would recommend from here, or would you just say leave it well alone for now?
Thank you in advance for any help.
Re: Northern England - couple of questions
personally id send the razor to neil miller
here is his site
strop-shop.co.uk
normally he is lurking on tsr
Re: Northern England - couple of questions
Quote:
Originally Posted by
pinklather
Hi Kaden,
The presence of a tiny nick seems to produce strong opinions on the subject. Some are afraid it will tear their face up. I tend towards the other extreme of - if its shaving well - don't worry about it. I tend to enjoy the shave and not wear away any more steel until the shaves are starting to degrade. It sounds like yours is still shaving alright.
On question#2, I'm not smart about UK geography, but there are a couple of names I keep hearing great things about on their edges - and Neil Miller is one of them. If nothing else, it seems you could make use of his service with alot of confidence.
normally he has a 2+ week waiting list for restorations so that shows you people are prepared to wait for his work