Thread: Honing a brand new straight razor to shave ready

Looking forward to reading your observations.

Moving to "Honing"

bobski

Sounds like you have a very sensible approach to learning to hone. From what you have said of your shave after touching up the Dovo I am guessing you are on your way to being able to maintain an edge. I hope when you get your other one back you get a pleasant surprise and see you are not that far off the mark and I think you will. I'd be interested to hear your comments on the differences between the two.

Bob

Hey badgister,

I shaved with the pro honed razor. (Honed by member havachat45 who is here in Australia). Wow what a difference. He did a colossal job and I now know what I need to attain, when I get the right stones etc to have a go at getting it right myself. I must say though, I've a long way to go compared to havachat45's work. I have a naniwa #8000 and I am getting over next two weeks a #1000k and a $4000k. This I hope will get me in the ballpark. The only question is, do I really need to go to 10k or 12k? I'm lucky I can chat with our honemeister, but around the world even on this site, views vary widely from the choice of stones, lapping, polishing, pastes.....it gets a little confounding! I do however like pure Cr O2 the type that only pottery glazers use. (No 15% crayons) on balsa. I think, with my limited knowledge that it's grit (@20-30k) is a nice polishing finish to any waterstone. I'm probably in a vague area here, but balsa blocks 3 x 3 and the crox $6 for 100g (enough for a thousand strops) is a lot cheaper in this country at least than a 12k naniwa. (above $150). But I must confess that none of us on this site are overly cash conscious, being more driven than most people!

Bobski it sounds like your paying too much for hones. Check the down under section there ate a couple threads of where to get stuff in oz and where to import from.