Thread: Issue with honing many razors at once.

Originally Posted by Gasman

With reztoring they seen to pile up faster than i can find time to hone. Thats the problem with restoring and working the hours i do.

I havent had to go back to the stone on any razor i honed and was satified with the edge to date. With as many as i rotate thru i bet the most shaves on any one of mine is around 10. So i wont even need a touch up for a while. But i will admit that im going back over some i thought were good a year ago and find now i didnt really know as much as i thought i did. Soon i will have them all under control.

But then again, im still restoring. Ha.

That's very true-old razors in my rotation that used to meet my standards sometimes no longer do. Once you learn by doing that you too can get those velvet squeegee edges repeatedly with a little more effort, you're no longer willing to settle for just an adequate edge, and why should you if you have the tools and the know-how?

But as you say, it's hard to squeeze in our hobby sometimes when work overwhelms us. I believe I remember you saying you work 70-80 hours a week, Jerry? I thought about you today when I saw the video of the massive tanker explosion in Italy-you guys who haul gas have my respect!

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

If your wife’s leg hair is that stiff to dull a razor faster than your face, might want to get her a brush hog

I only have a couple razors, so my beard hair and her legs makes edges go faster than I would like.

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

If your wife’s leg hair is that stiff to dull a razor faster than your face, might want to get her a brush hog

I was going to say "bush hog" but somebody might read something into that, TC

It is defiantly harder to hone more than one at a time because each razor requires different strokes, gymnastics, pressures.

one thing ive noticed in honing more than a couple razors at once is to really watch the water on the edge and to dry the edges out between stones and which one you are working on so the edges don't rust out faster than you hone them.

so lets say you have 5 razors to put edges on. you soak your 1 k in the sink, then set the bevel on the first one, then set it aside and grab the next one and start working on it, if you don't dry the edge off completely and set it on a dry spot on the bench, then by the time you get through setting the bevel on the 5th one, soak your next stone and pick that first razor up, it could have been sitting with a wet edge for an hour, which is a lot of time that the water and air have been at work on the edge that you just created.

so the way ive been doing that is to work the razor on the current stone, hand strop a couple times to take most of the junk off the edge { stone and steel particles} then strop 10 times on a shop strop {just a piece of hemp strap from hobby lobby, but newspaper would work also} to dry the edge out, place the razor a the bench a couple feet away from the sink, then grab the next one and work through the stones that way, and it seems to be working pretty good.

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Yes, i did find this too. Not like real rust but the color of rust starting. And it did not make me happy to say the least. This happened one time, after that i kept a strop close by and a dry towel. Didnt want to make that mistake.

Thanks for reminding me of this and pointing it out so others dont have the same issue. It dont take mu h to dry them up between. And it dont take long for it to happen. That put a bit of scare into me.