Thread: New guy honing on Naniwa 12K SS - big thank you SRP

Originally Posted by micksonline

it's harder than it looks.

It's harder than it looks only because you have not yet developed the muscle memory. With practice this will get easier. It's the same as the learning process for riding a bike. What initially is a struggle requiring your full attention will become almost automatic over time.

Refreshing is a great place to start. You may choose to stay with refreshing or you may choose to learn a full progression. What happens to a lot of people is you develop RAD and then you have too many razors to send them all out, so you start to do full progression honing. Then you see all the hones out there and you start to develop HAD. This can be as elaborate or as minimal as you choose. There is no one answer. I hope you continue to have fun and reach your shaving goals. Congratulations on taking a successful new step.

great place to start as you spend more time on the 12k you will get better at it, plus if you haven't had a pro honed razor you should try it to see where your edge falls. good job,, but your comment about taking a month to get one honed is incorrect information unless you sent it out to the space station. I can send a razor from Tennessee to Idaho and have it back in my hands in about 7 days sometimes 6 so lets not make people think that outside services have terrible turnaround times Tc

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

great place to start as you spend more time on the 12k you will get better at it, plus if you haven't had a pro honed razor you should try it to see where your edge falls. good job,, but your comment about taking a month to get one honed is incorrect information unless you sent it out to the space station. I can send a razor from Tennessee to Idaho and have it back in my hands in about 7 days sometimes 6 so lets not make people think that outside services have terrible turnaround times Tc

Good point tcrideshd. I guess I was thinking of some of the big shops that post two week turn around times for a honing service and I built in a typical 3-5 working day shipping. I've seen a number of people on SRD offer a honing to newbies and that surely would have a short turn around. Thank you for pointing that out.

-Mick

Originally Posted by RezDog

Refreshing is a great place to start. You may choose to stay with refreshing or you may choose to learn a full progression. What happens to a lot of people is you develop RAD and then you have too many razors to send them all out, so you start to do full progression honing. Then you see all the hones out there and you start to develop HAD. This can be as elaborate or as minimal as you choose. There is no one answer. I hope you continue to have fun and reach your shaving goals. Congratulations on taking a successful new step.

Funny how those ADs work. I do everything completely backward. Learned to hone a razor before I learned to strop (and to some degree shave) with one. Acquired a bunch of hones, then came to the realization that it would be awfully difficult to properly test 5 different finishing stones on 2 razors. And now my strops are starting to multiply too...

No matter which you catch first, it seems one inevitably follows the other.

Congrats on your success micksonline! Hope many more follow it! Have fun.

I resemble Marshal's shaving journey to a very large degree, but then again, I've always been "Abby Normal."

Congrats on your first honing success. Depending how severely RAD takes hold of you, you might find yourself becoming a fairly decent honer before too long. Fair warning.