Thread: Honing - move the blade or the stone?

If moving the stone works great, but it seems a bit backward and I doubt you will get the same feedback and control. If I were you I would take my time learning to either hone with the hone on a table or in hand and moving the razor. Leave moving the stone as a last resort if all else fails.

I would guess that there is a problem with geometry of the razor and that moving the hone added pressure into the stroke that did not exist when you were moving the razor.

I would not make it a habit.

I couldn't believe when i read this op.
In fact you can move the stone and keep stable blade and sharpen the razor.
The only problem is
you must use Back honing(name may be wrong basically stone doesn't go against the edge but same direction as the edge)
This will take more time and practice and patience.
i hope you chose the option which razor moving not hone.
gl.

Originally Posted by StubbleBuster

I would like to know how your shave went with this new technique. Have you shaved with it yet?

Had my shave tonight. I'd give myself a...drum roll please...C+ to a B.

The blade was down to about 75% from shave ready before the hone. Although I didn't bring it back up to SRD quality of 100%...I think it was brought back to ~90%.

A HUGE improvement over my first attempt. A relatively smooth, irritation free shave. A satisfactory attempt.

Still a long way to go, and from the feedback here I'll try to keep the blade moving rather than the hone...but at least I know I'm not doing anything too bad. I'm giving myself higher marks for keeping at it, improving the edge and bring back a dullish blade to pretty much shave ready. Not bad for a 3rd attempt at honing, and keeping me hungry for more

Good times. Thanks again!