Thread: Honing Woes

Originally Posted by Kirasy

I finally got around to honing this straight razor yesterday. I simply did a few more laps on my 12k Naniwa and then a 100 or so laps on my strop and its performing much better now. I decided I might aswell try smoothing it out before I turned to resetting the bevel.

Thanks to everybody for the idea, information and suggestions, it was much appreciated!

Sometimes, a few days off from honing a difficult razor really helps.
Before honing any razor I always check for frowns and assess the level of hone wear. A frown will be nearly impossible to hone until it's removed and an extra layer of tape on a worn spine can be like magic on a worn spine

Also I realized that a large part of it may have been that I had been using a larger near near wedge straight razor the week previous so I took me a day to readjust my angle and technique. I feel a little silly for not first suspecting that.

That is where my using each razor for around a week started. I don’t think it makes that big of a difference now, but in the early days doing many days with the same blade made for a higher ration of fantastic shaves.