Thread: Honemeister Accreditation?

Buy yourself an Eboy special with no bevel and dreadful hone wear on the spine and hone that. When you do this for a business you never know what you will get and some guy will have you hone his razor and then complain the bevel is 5 microns bigger on one side than the other. If you can handle all of that then your ready.

There are all kinds of pitfalls when you start honing for others.
What you will receive are the razors that others cannot get sharp because of either a warped blade, badly nicked edge, uneven wear on the spine, a definite frown shape to the razors edge (that really gets me), pitting along the edge, very loose pins, or a "bread knife dull edge", to name a few.
You better have a full complement of tools and the experience to know how and when to use them. In short, you will not be receiving the cream of the crop. Only someone else's problems. A challenge is fun but it does grow old. Then you start making your own razors!
Make sure that you reserve the right to return the razor because it is in such bad shape.
P.S. Sometimes you will receive a cracked blade.

Off to the workshop I go,

Two years ago a fairly new member asked this very question. He got a mixed response; some said go for it and others said hold on there grasshopper who you think you are.

In the end he decided to buy up ebay beaters for $5 and hone them up and sell them for $15 or $20. That way he wasn't "presuming" to be a honemeister, he was just selling very nice no-name shavers for an excellent price. People got to know his edges, and word got around.

That was JoshEarl. You mighta heard of him.

Go for it grasshopper!

Now and then I sell razors I've honed on the classifieds. I started off by saying that I had honed the blades, and they were, for me, shave ready (shave ready is, after all, subjective). As time went by, I found that I had not received any complaints from the buyers, with one exception. Once, I was told that one out of two blades that went to a buyer was not ready. He sent it to me, I re-honed and re-tested the blade, and I sent it back. He was happy.

Having gotten better at honing, and comparing the blades to those I have recieved, I don't feel that is is necessary to make these disclaimers anymore. But, if I did recieve feedback that a blade was not ready, I would still be more than willing to work out something with the buyer such that everyone ended up happy.