Thread: honing

where do you go for you"re razors to be honed? any good places in Belgium or do you send them to one of the honers from the SRP?

grts

grts,

Mr Dempster of The Invisble Edge, www.theinvisibleedge.co.uk & Mr Neil Miller of Strop-Shp, www.strop-shop.co.uk do excellent razor honing, and are a bit nearer to you than the 'States.

have fun !

regards

Russ

Off hand, I don't know anyone offering honing services in Belgium. Bart, a member here, offers a free honing on a coticule if you register on his site dedicated to those wonderful Belgian pieces of rock, wouldn't be a long term solution but I've never heard a bad word against his edges. A little further from home but still in the EU are Steve Dempster and Neil Miller both of whom are members here. Rasurpur in Germany has a good name too. Good luck.

I try to do my own honing (mostly successful).

i've been thinking about that to but I have to find a cheap hone first sinds i'm a student and i don't have much money and i need a second razor to

By all means go to coticulebe here and send Bart a message. He will get you started. He is in Belgium so would be your closest and best bet.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

By all means go to coticulebe here and send Bart a message. He will get you started. He is in Belgium so would be your closest and best bet.

You can have a small coticule of 15 x 4 cm for 42 EUR over at Ardennes Coticule. It may seem small but it really suffices to get a razor in shape. Bart's coticule.be site mentioned above explains very well how to use it.

I could also show you how I hone my razors but honestly I don't trust my own honing enough at this point, I need more practice.

i thought it needed to be around 20x5 to be handy

Originally Posted by geruchtemoaker

i thought it needed to be around 20x5 to be handy

The one I have is +/- 14.5 x 3.5 cm and is according to another member I showed it to "nearly perfect size" for honing a razor. That being said, I also think that a slightly larger one may be handier because less strokes to do (?), but is it necessary ? Nope.

Also, there's the difference in price . You can always start with a small one, I don't think you'd lose a lot of money (if any) if ever you decide it's too small and want a larger one.

what would be best a coticule or a belgian bleu?