Originally Posted by
Jetmech
...I couldn't do it with one hand, had to use two. At one point while trying one handed I must have tilted the blade a little on the edge of the stone because I noticed I messed up the bevel on one spot. So I took several more passes using two hands making sure I was pushing the water on the stone evenly. Then I tried to shave some hairs on my arm midway up the hairs if that makes sense. Uh oh, nothing, no hair popping.:banghead: Well I might as well try and strop it. So I took about 20 passes on the linen with CrOx, 30 passes on clean linen, and 60 strokes on clean leather. Now it pops the hairs a lot more than it was before! Whew! I then went back and cleaned up my under my chin. It seemed to work fine. I'm going to let my face rest a day and then try it again.
Is it possible that I could have dulled my razor that much in just 3 weeks? Am I the worst stropper and shaver ever? I will still probably get another shave ready razor to keep just for comparison and then use it when the other one needs honing. I will probably use this first razor to learn to hone on and then compare my results to the 2nd shave ready razor. Just not in the budget yet.