Thread: Honing a Wedge/Near Wedge

This might help: Google 'gssixgun honing a smiling wedge videos' and watch all three parts, its how I learned to hone a wedge.

In my early days of honing the first wedge that I tried to hone was a Frederick Reynolds 'Princes Own' near wedge (got disgusted and sold the razor to a collector friend) which I spent roughly 6 hours with no success just trying to set the bevel, I no doubt had no idea what I was doing. Later when I acquired another near wedge, I believe a W&B, I sat down and watched those three videos several times. I then would watch part of one video, apply what I learned, watch some more of the video and apply what I learned, then go to the next video and did the same thing, I think you get the picture, and ended up with a very fine shaving razor. I later traded the razor and the new owner told me that I put one fine edge on it.

A few years later I traded for that same FR near wedge and applied what I had learned from those videos and in 30 minutes had that same 'Princes Own' razor shaving like a dream, still have it in my rotation and is one of my better shavers.