Thread: Too sharp...Honing problem or Personal preference?

Honing an edge to ultimate perfection doesn't just mean it's "really sharp". It also means it gives a shave with ultimate comfort. When it comes to honing that is where you separate the men from the boys. I've always felt when folks claim the edge is "too sharp" what they are really saying is they got it real sharp alright but the comfort factor is absent. The two go hand in hand.

That's the way I see it.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Honing an edge to ultimate perfection doesn't just mean it's "really sharp". It also means it gives a shave with ultimate comfort. When it comes to honing that is where you separate the men from the boys. I've always felt when folks claim the edge is "too sharp" what they are really saying is they got it real sharp alright but the comfort factor is absent. The two go hand in hand.

That's the way I see it.

Yes thebigspendur, maybe "too sharp" isn't the right way to describe what I'm dealing with. Less comfortable may be the better way to go about describing it.

There are so many factors that play into it from my honing. The three factors that make the edge is the steel, the stone, and the hand. There are more factors than that for the shave, but that also plays into it a bit. As my abilities have progressed in both shaving and honing my taste for edges has evolved too. I still have the bad habit of taking an edge too far though. It is not comfortable, I often call it prickly. I suspect that those edges also have a very short life span as well, although have never wanted to shave with one enough to prove that. I think our shaving and honing tastes evolve over very long periods of time and I suspect they are never really static.