Thread: Honing with two hands

I think it depends on the person honing . I think some people hone better with 2 hands , and some people are better using 1 hand . I use 2 hands . I tried honing with 1 hand , and got mediocre results . Switched to 2 hands , and my results improved big time , YMMV

Originally Posted by dave5225

I think it depends on the person honing . I think some people hone better with 2 hands , and some people are better using 1 hand . I use 2 hands . I tried honing with 1 hand , and got mediocre results . Switched to 2 hands , and my results improved big time , YMMV

In the begining the results are better with two hands (on some razors) and the honing seems easier (on some razors), but if you insist (persist ?)(keep on ?), in honing with one hand after some time you succeed the best results!

Originally Posted by Yannis

In the begining the results are better with two hands (on some razors) and the honing seems easier (on some razors), but if you insist (persist ?)(keep on ?), in honing with one hand after some time you succeed the best results!

This may or may not be true. I don't want to be ornery about this, but unless you've spent a lot of time doing it both ways (one handed and two handed) you can't possibly know this to be true. Even if you have been doing it both ways for a long time, how do you know that two-handed is not the best way? Perhaps you are just not very good at using both hands

I get shaving edges every time and on all my blades using two-handed honing, even with warped blades and smilers etc. Pressure really is not an issue if you know what you're doing.

However, as with everything, YMMV.

James.

I use two hands and pop a big toe in there sometimes for extra stability

Could this kind of be like a two-handed backhand in tennis or some unorthodox stance in baseball --- that is, it might not be the most efficient and technically correct way but results are results.

Justin

Originally Posted by Jimbo

This may or may not be true. I don't want to be ornery about this, but unless you've spent a lot of time doing it both ways (one handed and two handed) you can't possibly know this to be true. Even if you have been doing it both ways for a long time, how do you know that two-handed is not the best way? Perhaps you are just not very good at using both hands


James.

It is not need to rediscover wheel.
People hone razors a very very long time ago, and because when begin honing, the easiest way is to hone with two hands, this method is not dicovered today but is probably the first method that people tryed and has been put aside by centuries of experience
That's why there is no need to be tryed again.
For a new discovered method I am willing to give it a try
By the way if someone hone razors with success by using two hands is the exeption and not the rule

Originally Posted by Yannis

It is not need to rediscover wheel.
People hone razors a very very long time ago, and because when begin honing, the easiest way is to hone with two hands, this method is not dicovered today but is probably the first method that people tryed and has been put aside by centuries of experience
That's why there is no need to be tryed again.
For a new discovered method I am willing to give it a try
By the way if someone hone razors with success by using two hands is the exeption and not the rule

I know I'm really butting in where I don't belong, and I'm WAY late into this thread, but with that ^ explanation, tell me why then do you shave with a straight razor, and not a Gillette Mach3?
I know we're talking decades, and not centuries, but isn't it the same thing? Str8's have been tried, the "safety razor" has been accepted by the masses - meaning by inference of this thread, that it must be "better" - so there's no reason to go back to that old inferior way of shaving, right?


OK, again, I'm really not trying to put this conversation back into the bicker it almost was, just wondering how that line of thinking works.

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[quote=RAP-BIG-ICP1;148336]I know I'm really butting in where I don't belong, and I'm WAY late into this thread, but with that ^ explanation, tell me why then do you shave with a straight razor, and not a Gillette Mach3?
I know we're talking decades, and not centuries, but isn't it the same thing? Str8's have been tried, the "safety razor" has been accepted by the masses - meaning by inference of this thread, that it must be "better" - so there's no reason to go back to that old inferior way of shaving, right?


OK, again, I'm really not trying to put this conversation back into the bicker it almost was, just wondering how that line of thinking works.


The " safety razor " as the two hand honing is accepted because is
easier to newbies.
But for the results.....

I personally always use both hands, in various ways - depending on what I feel is best and / or easier for the particular razor and the hone I am using.

For example, I am a big fan of using 1" hones. Take the hone in my left hand, hold the razor in my right and hone away. Same for barber hones. Works a treat.

Now, holding a 3x8" in your hand is not as much fun, and I usually lay it on a table / top. What the @#$! am I supposed to do with my left hand then??? So I use it in the honing process - may be on top pressing harder to take out a chip, may be just the thumb behind the spine just slightly pushing, depending on the case and the razor.

I think it is not right for someone to say that one way only is the right way and the other doesn't work.

Yannis - if I remember correctly, you were also the person who complained about poor result from a coticule - that it was 4K or so and you coudn't pass the HHT off it. You said HHT wasn't working because it was low grit and a bad coticule. However - it is actually very easy to pass HHT off 4K, and I can do it even on 1K. Sure, some razors pass HHT harder off the coticule (regardless if it's 4K or not) but it doesn't mean that it can't be done.

We should keep an open mind. What works for one may not be ideal for another.

And Justin's big toe here and there really takes the cake in this thread

Cheers
Ivo

Originally Posted by Jimbo

This may or may not be true. I don't want to be ornery about this, but unless you've spent a lot of time doing it both ways (one handed and two handed) you can't possibly know this to be true. Even if you have been doing it both ways for a long time, how do you know that two-handed is not the best way? Perhaps you are just not very good at using both hands

I get shaving edges every time and on all my blades using two-handed honing, even with warped blades and smilers etc. Pressure really is not an issue if you know what you're doing.

However, as with everything, YMMV.

James.

+1 Never one to forcefully put forth my own experiences and opinions , I tend to be a two handed honer and the reason for this is that I am able to very lightly guide the blade along the stone more smoothly and more consistently than when I use one hand. I require a really keen edge to scrape off my wirey beard and this is how I am able to achieve it. YMMV but I think to presume history's course and the results of others seems just that - presumptuous. I am interested to hear of how everyone hones up their blades, however. Even in Greece
Happy Honing and Keen Edges to All -

I'm worried that with two hands I double the likelihood of uneven pressure per stroke, even if it's a light touch. Whatever works, works though, may be all in the individual's coordination.