Thread: Honing Equipment

Shooter - can you elaborate on "paste"? I'm also trying to learn to hone. Are you just talking about something like chromium oxide?

Originally Posted by MajorEthanolic

Shooter - can you elaborate on "paste"? I'm also trying to learn to hone. Are you just talking about something like chromium oxide?

I'm not shooter but paste can be anything from dovo branded strop pastes to CrOx to diamond. And sometimes can cover those mediums applied via spray. Its kind if an umbrella term. But for most its CrOx.

Originally Posted by MajorEthanolic

Shooter - can you elaborate on "paste"? I'm also trying to learn to hone. Are you just talking about something like chromium oxide?

Craig is right on the money & results vary a LOT. I for one have used them and decided they weren't really for me. I like what stones do to my razors & not so much for pastes. To maintain a already shave ready blade, there is also the simple barber hone...was used for decades. I keep a Swaty in my bathroom.

My normal recommendation for anyone in our sport is to learn to shave first, without "knowing" what shave ready is, attempting to hone is not very worthwhile.

Once you have shaving down, learn to take a razor that is starting to deteriorate a bit and tugging a little and touch it up. Once you have touching up down, then progress on to honing.

My recommendation to honing is a simple one...find a mentor. They don't have to be a badged member here, just someone who can proficiently hone a blade. The more experience the have, the more ways they will know how to teach you.

Lastly, in SRP's founder's words: Have fun!

My normal recommendation for anyone in our sport is to learn to shave first, without "knowing" what shave ready is, attempting to hone is not very worthwhile.

Once you have shaving down, learn to take a razor that is starting to deteriorate a bit and tugging a little and touch it up. Once you have touching up down, then progress on to honing.

My recommendation to honing is a simple one...find a mentor. They don't have to be a badged member here, just someone who can proficiently hone a blade. The more experience the have, the more ways they will know how to teach you.


wiser words have not been said ,, great advise tc
sorry didn't mean it to look like I said all Shooters quote!!