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

I'll take up this challenge too. It will take some time, probably a month or so, but I'm in. Should I use my Shapton Glass 500?

Originally Posted by Longhaultanker

Should I use my Shapton Glass 500?

Why not?

Actually, I've never shaved off of mine so I will have to do that and compare it to the shave I got off the Chosera 600. Good idea!

Saw this challenge and it reminded me of the fellow who asked Abraham Lincoln how he like being president,

Lincoln replied, "You have heard the story, haven’t you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it. His reply was that if it was not for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk."

I've gone this route before and will decline the invite however I will detune the razor I carry in my boot and the next time I have occasion to slice someone up I'll ask if he prefers the 1K edge or the 20K.

I'm in, prolly sometime in the next couple of days. I routinely go straight to a Suita from the King 1k, and spent a lot of time shaving off each nagura in the progression when I was starting on Jnats. Should be interesting!


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Originally Posted by Utopian

There's no wrong answer. Which one interests you more?

I would say in the spirit of this thread, it would be better to go up the Nortons. Have you ever shaved off the 4k and the 8k?

Yep, when I did the 1K shave last I also did a 4K shave. Also spent 6 months shaving with just 1 blade honed on the Norton 8k, then kept it that way as a control when I started experimenting again.

Well, I suppose you're right. The 4K and 8k are more in spirit of the thread. So that's what I'll go with.

Not my best shave, but I cheated a little and stropped it a couple of times with CRox to make sure I removed the burr. Not something I want to try again though

Originally Posted by Marshal

Yep, when I did the 1K shave last I also did a 4K shave. Also spent 6 months shaving with just 1 blade honed on the Norton 8k, then kept it that way as a control when I started experimenting again.

Well, I suppose you're right. The 4K and 8k are more in spirit of the thread. So that's what I'll go with.

I continue to do something like that. I have a set of razors that have been maintained only with a couple of barber hones since 5 years before I found SRP. After I joined SRP and started buying a few more hones

I kept that set of razors as a control group to compare between my original and new hone options, and that original set still shaves quite well.

Of course, that means I've wasted a lot of money!

Another razor with lots of work with 1K and stoping only. Will give it the shave test tomorrow.

Check out this bevel...

Think I got the stria nice and smooth and small. Its grabbing hair. Crossing my fingers I got the bevel set on this one.
BTW, Corsera Green stone.

I'm in....have a razor in the honing que that was going to be a touch and now will be a kill and 1K....

Just wanna know if the Norton 4/8 Challenge is going to come back...(as in kill the edge, 4/8k only, no 1K, no Crox....)

And for the 1K challenge - can we tape? Can we Zowada ?