Thread: Can't get it shave ready, help!

I've moved this to the Honing Section where it will get more views and more help for you

You can achieve a shave ready edge with what you have…it's exactly how I started. Try the pyramid method and see how that works out for you, it's virtually fool proof. And nothing wrong at all with a layer of tape on the spine, it's how I and many other hone razors. Best of luck and let us know how it works for you or if you need any more help.

When you start with a shaving razor and it begins to lose the edge,

HONING is not the first answer.

Stropping with paste is. A few strokes, carefully. Then back to webbing/leather/face.

If that doesn't work. Touch up with high-grit stone, little to no slurry. OR, in the alternative, a very few strokes on a Barber hone. Follow with pasted strop, etc, test.

If that doesn't work, you may have fundamental errors to correct, in your technique or razor.

If you tape the spine on a razor that wasn't taped before, then you'll get the micro-dual-bevel. is fine-should shave and eventually it will become one bevel. If you don't tape and the razor was taped before, you'll start cutting the top edge of the bevel and not the cutting edge. Either way, you should be able to see the difference. Pick a way and stick with it for best efficiency.

Maybe you can upload pics of your edge and set up?

Re-setting bevels shouldn't be needed by normal guys shaving with properly sharpened razors. Glen showed that in a test where he tried to "over-hone" a razor. IIRC the conclusion was that a good regimen of pasted stropping can keep an edge fresh for a very long time.

Try to find the video where Glen shows full stropping afterward, might be part 3 of a "One-stone hone" series. I forget which stone. He uses two levels of paste, then canvas/webbing, then clean leather.

Keep in mind that shavers should move backwards through the process just to maintain an edge. Most of the honing videos are about REFURBISHING an edge from mower-blade dull, to a shaver.

HTH

Here is just a bit of info about honing using the Norton 4/8

http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...on-2012-a.html

The best part of this thread is it includes everyone's opinions from Newbs to Pros really some good info there

Another good read that might help you..

http://straightrazorpalace.com/begin...tml#post908878

Reading that Beginners Tips brings out a question also of what is a "Shave Test"


http://straightrazorpalace.com/video...-test-vid.html



Hope all that helps, Good Luck