Thread: Quality of badger hair

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I would say you need to reset what you are dong there. You should never use a stone you know nothing about with a razor unless you are advanced and are experimenting. Do yourself a favor and get a stone or two designed for straights.

Well I don't wanna dive into honing just yet. Since I am still learning, I want to get the shave down first before I move onto something else. Besides I spent $165 already this week on a strop, cream, and razor restoration. Not sure I wanna push past that $200 mark in one week haha. For now I will just send my razors off to be honed.

That's a beautiful brush, at a heck of a good price. Enjoy!

Thank you! It has worked very well for me so far!

Good call on send out for honing. With a properly sharp blade, you'll only think you're removing lather from your face. The barbs should come off without any extra sensation.

Hones are a slippery slope all their own. At the minimum you'll want a 1000-grit bevel setter and a 4k/8k or 3k/8k. As Shooter74743 says, it's best to learn on synthetics. They're consistent and lots of other folks are using the same stone, so it's easier to get your questions answered. But that's all for later, and a budget all its own.

BTW, that IS a very nice brush you scored.

Happy shaving!

Originally Posted by roughkype

Hones are a slippery slope all their own. At the minimum you'll want a 1000-grit bevel setter and a 4k/8k or 3k/8k.

Actually, the setup you've described is better for edge repair. If all you want to do is maintain a shave ready blade the minimum would be either a barbers hone, high grit finisher or pasted meduim. No need for more than that if shaving is your main objective.

Sorry to hijack a thread in the Brushes section...