Thread: How many razors

I keep a 7 day set in the medicine cabinet. If a razors fails the test I just grab 1 of my regulars, strop and go. I never set up for failure. A self inflicted punishment maybe but it makes me more determined to do it right the first time.

I just take one.

If its one ive just honed then I will take a back up otherwise just one.

since i'm still a noob i always take a back up. too much hassle to walk through the living room to get my hones. SWMBO thinks i spend too much time shaving anyway.(on a side note, i had a successful first hone attempt last night on a Clauss razor: YES!)

The more you hone razors, the better you get, if you are doing it right. My attrition rate has fallen way down, but on occasion any one razor will disappoint and need another trip to the hones. If anyone says they are 100 percent successful 100 percent of the time, they may kid themselves, but not me! Even if a razor is 'close', I put it down and grab another.
No fun shaving with one which is 'close' to perfect, IMO. YMMV

Just the one. Usually good enough to get through the shave even if it's not perfect. If I really missed the mark honing, I will go grab another from the cabinet in the closet which is just around the corner.

One hone, one shave, lol. (One shot, one kill haha). I normally only take one razor but if I'm testing several new stones I might have up to four razors and divide my beard up into quadrants to test them.

Two. They are always in the bathroom.
I use one until it needs to be honed.
Once it doesn't shave like I want I hone it or I either send it out for honing and switch to the other.

But, I'm a Newb learning all the time

Just one for me.

Cheers, Steve

Have 12 sitting in a case on the sinktop. Never had to swap in midstream though as when I finish using a blade that's lacking, it gets honed within a day or 2 and replaced back in the case.