Film is easy but it has a "surgical" feel to it. No comparison to a great Jnat edge.
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i can hone some of my razors to give a pain free, but not totally bbs shave. some of them are very frustrating. lately i've been using a King Cutter a lot, and i have to wonder if i'm still coasting on the edge dylan put on it, but that was almost three years ago. the other day i tried honing a Bengall and the stabilizers got in the way. i didn't even try to shave with it. i'll try again.
I hone because I like to be self sufficient also, I've saved a lot of trial and error with Lynn's videos. I'm a user, not a collector or planning to do this professionally. So I enjoy the learning and achieving results. Well I used to hone woodcut gouges mainly with arkansas stones, (for wood engraving, I studied art) so I had some familiarity with hones. But this is another game.
Conclusion formed by looking at the results...
People that read the "Honing Forum" on SRP and answer Honing Polls, tend to Hone their own razors :thinking:
I must confess that although I do my own honing I do have one razor out that someone else is honing and I'd like to trade edges so to speak with some of the other Canadians. I can't have all the hones to try all the edges, however there are ways of trying the edges they produce.
I definitely should have but a "little bit of both" option!
Yeah I hone & sometimes I don't want to . :p