Thread: I want to know...

You have introduced an extreme amount of bias into your poll by placing it in the honing section. If you were to place the same poll in the general shaving discussion, I'll bet the results would be much different.

For the record, I was only shaving with straights for about a month and a half before I got into honing.

Originally Posted by HNSB

You have introduced an extreme amount of bias into your poll by placing it in the honing section. If you were to place the same poll in the general shaving discussion, I'll bet the results would be much different.

For the record, I was only shaving with straights for about a month and a half before I got into honing.

I think you may be right . Maybe one of the Mods will move it .

Originally Posted by dave5225

I think you may be right . Maybe one of the Mods will move it .

If you send a PM to one of the mods with a request to move it they might accommodate you.

Started to hone from the get go.

I would not call what I did from 1981-2000 (I dropped my last straight about then and got back in to SR's in 2006) honing, I had learned to maintain my razors on one stone, that is what I had been taught by the barber that got me started with a straight...I knew how to do a standard X stroke, I knew about very light pressure.... BTW that worked pretty well too, but then again I didn't really know better until I learned to "hone" razors...
I used Lynn's standard pyramid method for the first 20 or so razors, then I started getting into the "all new" progressive honing method about when I joined this forum

Worked on that for the next 80 or so razors then started learning how to hone wedges... I volunteered to hone just about every damn wedge I saw on the forum, somebody would post that they were having trouble I would send them a PM "I'll hone it"....Soon after that I started restoring my razors, and for friends at about the same time, and have never looked back since...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

I would not call what I did from 1981-2000 (I dropped my last straight about then and got back in to SR's in 2006) honing, I had learned to maintain my razors on one stone, that is what I had been taught by the barber that got me started with a straight...I knew how to do a standard X stroke, I knew about very light pressure.... BTW that worked pretty well

I would consider that , honing . Maintainence honing is what I would call honing . Anything more , is what I call edge restoration .

As I recall probably around 6 months after I started with a straight I started honing (or some facsimile of honing). I really didn't know what I was doing. But that was way before this site and I didn't know about the SRP Yahoo site until later.

I started STr8 shaving & pseudo-honing in the early 80's... My biggest revelation back then was finding some instructions that said you had to hone with the spine on the hone.
It was often just dumb luck if I could get a shaving edge & not ruin it on the strop. Often went back to the Muck111 in disgust & then back to Str8s in disgust of Muck111's
For some of us learning can be a long hard road but perseverance pays off.

I learnt more in my short time on SRP than the years I tried on my own. A big public THANK YOU to Lynn & everybody here that shares their knowledge