Thread: This razor is driving me crazy- won't shave!

Congrats! I agree every time I learn something new in honing and my razors shaves like never before I want to go back to everyone of my others razors and give them the same treatment!!!!

Originally Posted by dshaves

Congrats! I agree every time I learn something new in honing and my razors shaves like never before I want to go back to everyone of my others razors and give them the same treatment!!!!

Indeed. Seems like every time I make a breakthrough it's very tempting to go back through my blades and touch everything up. Well, depending on what it is I got into. With pastes, I don't want to give all my blades that treatment. It would erase the natural edges and kill how those blades feel. But if it's technique relative it would be interesting to see what would happen if applied to my various finishing hones.

This is a great thread. I have learned much about honing since I've started, and I now pay much more attention to feel and to the "undercut" of water on the hone. I'm just now getting to the point where my razors come off the finishing stone with a truly shave ready edge. I've been using CrOx on leather for my finish for a while. I still have to try hard to get one shaving good straight off the stone. Hopefully experience will help. It's hard to give up the CrOx though, since it seems to improve the edges even on my best razors off the hones, even my edge from SRD.