Thread: Is honing really that difficult?

Originally Posted by 32t

Just random numbers I am thinking.....

I think no one would argue that it would take the average person a year to learn how to shave well. 365 shaves.

If you are honing for yourself only that would mean you would hone on an average every 3 months over that time to be good.

365/4=91.5 years.

You would have to live a long life only honing your own to become an expert.

365/4=91.5 years

Is it really the case that one fourth of one year equals 91.5 years?

It is no wonder then that time sometimes seems to progress so slowly.

Originally Posted by ace

365/4=91.5 years

Is it really the case that one fourth of one year equals 91.5 years?

It is no wonder then that time sometimes seems to progress so slowly.

If you need to hone your blades 4 times a year it would take you 91.5 years to hone your blade 365 times. Which is how many times you could easily shave in a year.

I hope that makes my point clearer.

Originally Posted by 32t

If you need to hone your blades 4 times a year it would take you 91.5 years to hone your blade 365 times. Which is how many times you could easily shave in a year.

I hope that makes my point clearer.

That it does, and it explains why I have so many razors. But 365/4=91.25, not 91.5, and that difference will allow me to finish my honing journey more quickly. On the other hand, to your point, how helpful will eliminating three months be? I'll be too old to remember how to hone a razor or even where I put the darn thing last time I honed it. But at least I won't have to hone just in leap years.

Originally Posted by ace

That it does, and it explains why I have so many razors. But 365/4=91.25, not 91.5, and that difference will allow me to finish my honing journey more quickly. On the other hand, to your point, how helpful will eliminating three months be? I'll be too old to remember how to hone a razor or even where I put the darn thing last time I honed it. But at least I won't have to hone just in leap years.

I am thinking what is necessary and more than what is needed. You can hone your razor every week if you want but is that what is needed? Many of us here are collectors and justify our tools that way.

One razor and all these tools to support it makes it uneconomical. If you want to great!

When I buy tires for my truck I get "free" rotation... I don't ever do it because I have the tools and the ability to do it in less than one quarter of the time that I sit in the waiting room of the shop and I know what is done. I have the tools and the ability.

Is that why people took to the DE razors? They didn't have the tools and the ability to do it themselves and they didn't want to hire someone else to do it for them?

Practice makes perfect and many times the biggest secret is secret because it is easy and most people could do it themselves......

Many here share their "secrets".

In this line of thought. IF i had only 5 or 6 razors, already had learned to shave properly without damaging my razors edges from stropping and such, id pay someone once a year to hone them and be done with it. Best edge possible equals the best shaves.
But i like to buy razors and restore so i need stones.

I enjoy the honing process almost as much as the shaving.