Thread: Are You A Real Man? Do You Think You Can Hone? Shave Off Of Your 1k Hone

This should have been a long time ago...

It's time for a dare. What the heck, let's make it a double dog dare, so now you have to do it…

I dare you to set the bevel on a 1k hone and then just strop it and shave with it. Please report back here with your results. You just might be surprised!

You would post this 10 minutes after I've shaved. Welp...

Done it before. But it's been a while and surely I've gotten better at this game since. I'm game to do it again. In fact I'll do it twice, since I have a Shapton 1K inbound. It'll just have to wait a day or two for my beard to grow back in.

But I suppose I can pick a razor to drag across the old Norton and get one prepped tonight.

I did do this once before. Very early on in my honing Glen told me to help learn when the bevel is actually set to do this. I set my bevel, or so I thought, test and back to the hone, and test and back to the hone and then shaved. It was not a smooth shave, but it did shave with limited effort, once I had the bevel correct. Now that I have been honing for a while, I think I will accept this challenge and get back to you tomorrow. I am most curious if I can get a more smooth shave from the 1K than my memory of that first experience.

Did a WTG with a 1k about a month ago. It wasn't as bad as I expected, but I definitely had some burn afterwards.
It definitely reinforces the idea of shave the lather, not the skin.

It was done a few times in the past

Here is the last one I remember

http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...k-shave-5.html

Yeah, I did not mean for my first post to imply that it had not been done before. I felt that it was long overdue to do it again.

No,,,,, No ,,,,,,No

Originally Posted by criswilson10

Did a WTG with a 1k about a month ago. It wasn't as bad as I expected, but I definitely had some burn afterwards.
It definitely reinforces the idea of shave the lather, not the skin.

You know it's funny, that's how I feel about my Shapton Kuromaku 12K. Lighter is better...

I don't remember razor burn being an issue from last time. But I do remember the blade tugging more than I'd like. One Gold Dollar (The others shave too danged good to mess with...) dulled with 3 strokes on the corner of the Norton 1K, prepped, stropped (110 each linen and leather) and 'ready for action.' Almost can't feel it shaving arm hair, we'll see how it does in the shave tomorrow evening or the day after.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Do it matter what we strop it on?

I'm operating on the assumption that paste would be cheating, otherwise I'd have done a few hundred on CrOx.

Did that challenge a while back when I started to learn to hone. Shaved at each step of my progression till I reached 1 12k finish. Learned a lot from each step.

Well, I won't be attempting it off the green Chosera..

A Genco off Naniwa 1k SS! HooooBoy!