Thread: Looking for Honing Teacher

Let me know if you find someone. I'm over in San Angelo and could use some info too.
I have the Norton 200/1k combo and Norton 4k/8k combo. Thinking about getting a Naniwa 12k from all the good things I'm hearing about it.
I've honed and shaved with some of my attempts, but it's not as nice a shave as I'd like and could definitely use a face to face teaching.

A demonstration would be great, but at the end of the day this is something that isn't taught as much as learned. Nobody has a face exactly like yours, everybody has preferences. I have bought some used razors that were shave ready for the former owner but didn't do a great job on my face or caused undue irritation. I would re-hone one from scratch, sometimes twice if I wasn't happy the first time, and it shaved great.

If you're like me, what you need most besides basic instruction is confidence. Videos like the one I posted earlier in this thread serve just as much to make honing look doable as it does the proper way to do it.

Sometimes if the razor is sharp but the shave is uncomfortable, there is debris from honing on the razor. That's why I have those balsa strops I mentioned in my earlier post in this thread.