Questions about dans hard Arkansas
I found online a dans hard Arkansas hone and purchased it. Now I am curious if I will need to lap the hone (of so with what? I do not have a dmt) and I was also wondering if I need to use water or lather on the stone. Also if these stones are usually fast or slow cutters. My razors were honed by Lynn and have become dull enough that shaving is uncomfortable. I am just looking for a touch up. Any help is appreciated. Thanks guys. Brandon
Questions about dans hard Arkansas
I must tell you that the hard stones are not as fine as the translucent and hard black. You wont be happy with it has a finisher. It will more than likely undo the fine job of honing that Lynn already did.
What we are missing here are a few items such as your experience level with straights and how much reading you have already done on razor upkeep I don't want to insult you by telling you some basic info..
But I did notice you have a linen strop, to be honest I would start a new thread in the stropping sub forum with how to handle keeping your razors shave ready after they were professionally honed, I think there is more going on here and taking them to the stones might not be the answer. Perhaps in a new thread if you could talk about your current strop setup and your technique, the experts can figure out what is going on that would cause the razors to be getting dull. ( just my opinion, but you should be able to go 6+ months or way more with just strops. But I think that conversation is best started fresh.
Happy shaving.