Thread: Honing after shaving ?

Originally Posted by shooter74743

These guys are right on. Blades do not need to "rest", kind of like saying my hammer needs to rest before driving another nail. Strop before and after a shave, I do 60x before & 40x after. I also do about 40x after a touch-up or honing to ensure no moisture is on the blade.

I let my blades rest 48-72 hours between ever pass. This mandates that I have three razors for each shave (minimum) and several sets of razors.

RAD...never heard of it

Seriously though, I cannot claim to have tested every steel/alloy made, but of those I have tested, I see no merit to this concept of resting. There is a lot of suspicious 'data' and lore out there, but it seems to me barbers would have needed a cost-prohibitive number of razors cluttering their parlors. If they did, there is no way these 'for barber use only' razors would be at all rare.

Now that I think about it...these barber use razors must have been made of a special steel that needs no resting...yeah, that's the ticket!

Yea, there are more than a few fairy tale like nuggets of info in the folklore of shaving. Trick is to find out which are and which aren't.

Bob