View Poll Results: Do you hone your own razors?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TimS View Post
    I'm up in the air right now. I have a coticule and a Thuringian I'm still trying to figure out. I have succeeded at lapping film, but Jnat edges from the pros I've tried are sooo nice. Maybe I should sell my rocks, get Jnat edges on everything and call it a day. We'll see.
    Film is easy but it has a "surgical" feel to it. No comparison to a great Jnat edge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wayne1963 View Post
    The only thing worse would be shelling butterbeans!
    I send mine out to a shellmeister
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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.

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    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.
    Arise, awake, and learn by approaching the exalted ones,
    for that path is sharp as a razor’s edge, impassable,
    and hard to go by, say the wise. Katha Upanishad – 1.3.14

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    Quote Originally Posted by Birnando View Post
    In honesty, it has become my favorite part of this hobby
    I can definitely relate to this. There's a feeling of satisfaction shaving with a blade you've honed, or even restored yourself. For me, sending a razor out to be honed was never an option.
    We have assumed control !

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
    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
    Now now, I frequented the brushmaker's alcove long before I put my own brush together

    Plus I didn't want to place the poll in the wrong section!

    It's interesting to know just how many people hone their razors!
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    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.

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    I definitely should have but a "little bit of both" option!

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    Yeah I hone & sometimes I don't want to .
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