Quote Originally Posted by Euclid440 View Post
Welcome, you have just learned, it’s not as easy as watching a video.

Send the razor out for honing and learn to maintain it on a good synthetic finish stone. OR…

Read Coticule.be, Straight Razor Honing from the Sharpening Academy.

Your razor can be honed with a Coticule, but it is one of the most difficult way to learn to hone. Do buy a 60X lighted loup, ($2-5) and if you want to learn more, read The Beginers Guide to Honing, in the Library, and the first 3 threads in the Honing Forum.

Jumping in blind, never has good results, fortunately, all is not lost… It can be fixed.
I read all those articles including the links and I have a question or two. In the part about maintaining it states that doing more strokes with a Coticule wont hurt the blade's edge at all unlike using one of those "vintage barber's hones". I heard that with barber's hones, you only use like 6-8 strokes and your done but I never heard of "over honing an edge" using a barber's hone and I believe it was referring to creating a burr.

So it this really possible to do, over hone with a barber's hone?

So say I do like 10-12 or so strokes, am I over honing and creating a burr on the edge?

Thx.