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It seems like my whole razor budget goes to stones and, to lesser extent, to strops.
I love the hones but I'd like to stop accumulating them.
I need more razors but I'm out of dough all the time.
Now I have two more cotis on the way. WTF am I going to do with those?
And there are two or three razors in the classifieds that I would LOVE to have. Sigh.
Michael
Would any of them be mine hahahahah well just split up the money ur saving and one could be for razIRS and the other could be for hones or strops
Chorus: HI MICHAEL... And to make matters worse, the stones are alot more expensive than most razors. Sigh. I know it doesn't help, but you're in good company. Wanna buy a 9" LPB... :)
get the stone's and try them out the one's you dont like sell them or trade them for razors !
what he said!Quote:
Originally Posted by eleblu05
When I first started with a straight, I quickly got a BAD case of RAD. Couldn't buy them fast enough. That gradually turned into rabid HAD, and now I have nearly as many hones as I do razors. It's a sickness.
+1! :( For me, it's Thuringians, though I do have a new coticule and Belgian Blue at hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by episaacs
Seeing that you now have the stones and skill why not offer to hone a few for others every month do you can keep those skills? Idea ?
The other side of HAD is unless you do A LOT of honing you will never get the chance to know the ins and outs of every individual hone. Same goes for RAD. But since we all have an AD or two, myself included, I guess I'll just shut my yap... :)
Typical enabler.Quote:
Originally Posted by pinklather
What skills? Hahahaha... just kidding. But seriously, I can't guarantee anything, but if you're asking me to hone one for you just pm me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnus
It will be fun trying...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryan82
Michael
Now you know why I hone for free. 'not something I hide.
You know, a lot of us have or had that problem. You really need to stop and think about what your doing, and why your doing it. Some guys keep buying and buying before they even master what they have. It's funny, when I started, I tried to buy every hone out there, and I had the funds to do it. Now, it's "less is more". I use a Chosera 1k, The Norton 4/8 and an Escher. That's it...I bought a bunch of other stones. I hardly use them. Every once in a while, I break out a Jnat, or the Charnley, maybe even a Coticule. When I was buying Coticules and selling them, Select grade was the stone to have, that's it, maybe a combo. All these vein names they have now didn't exist. You took what the vendor had, or the quarry sent you. Seems like pretty smart marketing to me. I understand they charge more for certain veins now. I could be wrong. That's just my opinion as a former Coticule vendor.
Honestly, To me, Once you get a good bevel set, and really learn your Nortons, The finisher is just icing on the cake. I'm partial to Escher/Thuringian. It leaves a butter smooth edge on my blade, no harshness at all. As far as HAD goes, it's just something that takes time to grow out of. No one could have talked me out of buying stones....We laugh about it, but it's like any other addiction really.
Zib,
That's all very true. If I wanted to I could probably do everything on three stones (norton 1k, 4/8, and Naniwa 12k). Right now, my best honed razors come from that progression. That may never change
I can't fully explain my attraction to hones. I can tell you that for me, it has less to do with the edge, than with the stone and the process itself. I really just like them. I like how they look, and I like how they feel. For me a natural stone is like a piece of jewelry, and a synthetic stone is a functional work of art.
When I have a great shave with my Boker (as I did today), I'm enjoying the shave just a little more because I'm thinking about the coticule I honed it with. It's linked to that stone, and the edge has the stones "fingerprint" on it.
Right now I'm just having fun. Maybe one day I will join the "less is more" crowd, just not yet.
Michael