I've just read this and found it very helpfull. The razor i have is 100 years old. The original box and "User's guide" has been preserved for so many years (the photos weren't taken by me but this is exactly the razor i bought)Quote:
The barber manual honing chapter here in the help files addresses this
Ii honed my razor today again. It reached some extent of sharpness. It passes HHT sometimes. When i hone more, the sharpness doesn't get better. I think my technique is not good enough yet. My hones are made by "Tojiro" (Japan) 4k and 1k.
I compare the sharpness to one of new DE blade. DE always passes HHT and cut every single hair with ease. Maybe i still use too much pressure :thinking: However i can see it's easier to hone than my other DOVO razor. There is one thing that bothers me - when honing with one hand only it's extremely difficult to keep the blade flat on the hone using very light prssure at the same time. The razor tends to lift up when it is moved along the hone thus i use my second hand to press (very lightly) the razor so that it would not lift up. Is it wrong ?