Thread: Is Progressive Honing Always Necessary

Agreed. I maintained a set of regularly used razors with nothing but a barber hone for well over 10 years. Bevels still are just fine.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Agreed. I maintained a set of regularly used razors with nothing but a barber hone for well over 10 years. Bevels still are just fine.

Yup - simple tools go a long way....

I once defended a small Amazon village from hordes of ferocious Army Ants with nothing but a hoe and a glass of water.

Rez, Spendur and Utopian are all correct.

When one of mine does not respond to CrOx it goes on a 16K Shapton. The blade does not have to stay there very long.

Per Utopian, I think I will try a 3 line Swaty and see what happens.

My 2¢ ......... All of the above have given good advice.

[QUOTE=Pahlavan;1512849]Cheers,

I know the world of hones is pandoras box.

And HOPE still clings to the lid.

When I first started trying to hone my own razors I set and reset bevels like a madman on a mission. In retrospect of course I realized this was totally unnecessary and a wasteful thing to do. I had to get that out of my system it was part of my learning process. Now days I embrace the less is more mentality and work backwards if a pasted strop wont work maybe a barber hone or certainly my 12k if that's not doing it back to a pre-finisher etc. I'm not saying anything new here but I understand this urge to overhaul a bevel when a razor starts acting up. Not usually required and a waste of steel and the shaving life of the razor. Now it makes me sad to see I knocked off an 1/8 on a half a dozen of my shavers for nothing, well other than the education.

Yes but that 3/4 of an inch of thin steel made you smarter. Just think how much you could learn from an anvil.

Originally Posted by Utopian

Yes but that 3/4 of an inch of thin steel made you smarter. Just think how much you could learn from an anvil.

Oh yes I dream at night of transforming my garage into Vulcan's Laboratory where hammered sparks fly with the huff of primitive bellows only to face my wife as she torches my hair and quenches it in a toilet, in displeasure saying," Not in my house." Then I wake up

Thank you all,

Thats great advice

Originally Posted by Utopian

Yes but that 3/4 of an inch of thin steel made you smarter. Just think how much you could learn from an anvil.

Lapping a 170 lb anvil...that sounds like a lot of fun.

Einstein