Thread: Rolling X - I think I figured something out

Originally Posted by gssixgun

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

100% agree. Learn to refresh an edge first. You do that all the time, anyway, even if you start with a shave ready razor. It's the logical gateway drug to honing. But some guys don't start with a shave ready razor and that's the problem. If every newbie started with a shave ready razor it would be pretty obvious.

Originally Posted by CrescentCityRazors

100% agree. Learn to refresh an edge first. You do that all the time, anyway, even if you start with a shave ready razor. It's the logical gateway drug to honing. But some guys don't start with a shave ready razor and that's the problem. If every newbie started with a shave ready razor it would be pretty obvious.

My first razor I honed was shave ready when I bought it. I didn't hone it until after it was no longer shave ready though. It's a Col. Conk i got in the early 2000s. But, I had a full beard for probably 7 of those years, so it sat in a drawer for a while.