Thread: Question About Honing - Covering The Spine Sides

Got it. Thanks for the clarification!

And I would add, just for precaution - some might not understand me yet : you can not add matter to a spine.
Sorry if I'm not clear sometimes, it's hard to speak english after all these years.

I don't know about right or wrong, but it certainly would make good business sense to ask a new client about his preference.
A generic template email introducing the client to the nuances of straight razor honing and maintenance would solve most of these problems.
This will engender trust between the involved parties, and more importantly, ensure repeat customers.
And quite frankly, in modern day e-business paradigm, this will cost next to nothing in terms of time and resource.

For the experienced SR users and honers, it might be easy to just say,
"tough luck another lesson learned,"
taking the route of precaution would certainly result in a win-win situation for all parties involved.
Just my two cents.

WOW, but there is a lot of trolling and misinformation in this thread.........

I knew you guys were in here, but am still amazed sometimes..........

At least the OP's question was in good faith.

I think several of you should shave with a razor from Dovo or TI that has no spine wear and really enjoy yourselves. FYI, these do not exist. I also think you should look at the spines on new TI's and realize that experienced people sharpening razors couldn't put that much wear on a razor in a few years of honing it. Out of the thousands of razors I hone every year, I get less than a handful of people requesting tape and once again, I am betting that if you measure the small amount of metal removed from a razor in good condition including bevel setting, you would find it far less than anything needing a precaution. Once a razor is honed properly and not damaged or dulled by improper use, the maintenance of it requires virtually no addition wear.

This topic has been so beat to death here.......

Have fun.

Here's a question, the discussion so far has been regarding spine wear. What about hone wear? Wouldn't honing with the spine un-taped double the wear on the stone thus making lapping of stone more frequent?

Actually for me, honing with tape causes my stones to gunk up faster and need cleaning/lapping more frequently.

Originally Posted by Tarkus

Here's a question, the discussion so far has been regarding spine wear. What about hone wear? Wouldn't honing with the spine un-taped double the wear on the stone thus making lapping of stone more frequent?

Originally Posted by Tarkus

Here's a question, the discussion so far has been regarding spine wear. What about hone wear? Wouldn't honing with the spine un-taped double the wear on the stone thus making lapping of stone more frequent?

,,,,,,, We could possibly solve this by taping the stone first,using some of that "fast" colorful tape??

Originally Posted by Hirlau

,,,,,,, We could possibly solve this by taping the stone first,using some of that "fast" colorful tape??

You see, this is why you have that Mentor status Hirlau.

Originally Posted by Tarkus

Here's a question, the discussion so far has been regarding spine wear. What about hone wear? Wouldn't honing with the spine un-taped double the wear on the stone thus making lapping of stone more frequent?

Hones are disposable,Razors are not.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Hones are disposable,Razors are not.

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