Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
Truth

You learn to hone from the top down not the bottom up

So many guys new to honing start at the bevel set and try and learn to hone often with suspect razors this makes the whole process take longer and honestly you teach yourself bad habits

Learning to maintain a shave ready razor first teaches you so much more about the touch required and you learn how the edge should look/feel much faster


But nobody listens
To be fair, you asked for one of the worst examples. That one has not made it into the "to be honed" bucket. I am having trouble with razors in much better shape than that one . But, there are at least five razors in line before that one.

All the razors I have been working on so far have been very kind to me and just needed flat strokes. Then I was playing with one Sharptonn sold me and it needed a bit of a twist at the end. It is next in line to shave with to see if I got it right.

But, you do have me concerned with the "bad habits" part. So, I'll have to do some pondering when the ugly ones come up.