Thread: Razor too sharp?

I too like a pretty crisp edge and when in a hurry or traveling I use feather de blades. In case you don't know, Feather blades are considered the industries sharpest edges.

In my opinion and experience, I would say that you have:
-Gotten used to a semi-dull razor and have developed pressure issues...using too much pressure of the blade on your skin. Check your angle too.
-Could be that your lather was too watery this time and didn't give you enough cushion...I did this the other day when in a hurry for a dinner date with my wife. My face felt a little tinder.
-Micro chipping is an option, but I haven't had CROX to do this. I have had diamond spray to do it though.

When you say refreshed the razor with Chromium Oxide for the first time...is this the first time for this blade? Or the first time you've used it?

Last time I messed with it, I found out real quick that if you have bad stropping technique Chromium oxide will let you know. A few bad passes was all it took to make me dig out the barber's hone to fix the edge. Most likely too much slack in the pasted linen allowing the edge to roll, but I haven't felt up to trying it again to see exactly what I screwed up.

Beyond that, my guess isn't that the razor is too sharp, but rather too dull. Like Rezdog, I find that when a blade is "too sharp" it's prickly and gives razor burn very easily. But as long as I'm careful touching it to my skin and don't make any slicing motions it doesn't cut me. Just gives a bad case of razor burn if I'm not careful with the pressure. This can be fixed as he said, with judicious stropping.

However, a dull blade will leave nicks, and it will do it fast. In part because you're using more pressure to compensate for it's dullness, and because the blade may skip or bounce as it chops hair rather than gliding effortlessly through it. Such has been my experience at any rate, YMMV.

Originally Posted by alla2465

I am not sure if this is the exact right place to post this, if this is not fitting then feel free to move this post to it's correct category.
So I refreshed my razor with some Chromium Oxide for the first time, since it was stating to pull, and I think I did a few passes too many on the pasted strop, (I did ot cake the compound on, so I did not put too much on the strop) but I did notice in my shave that it was sharper, much sharper than I thought. I got a few cuts, and some nicks, I did not apply much pressure, and thsi did not happen after I got it honed earlier this year.
So is it possible to over-sharpen your razor with too many passes on the chromium oxide? Because my face got a bit shredded after this shave, I am still learning but this never happen before.

It's possible to have a razor that's sharper than when it was first honed but does that mean it was too dull before ?

If it shaved obviously not.

The main problem with seemingly "too sharp" razors is the user or a fault in the edge. I don't think many people can hone a razor much beyond 0.4micron in width.