Thread: Honing Heresy

Thanks for the post! It is a subject that a lot of new guys never see or hear about. One of our guys, David Uthe, said he shaved for a long time by just touching up the edge on a hanging linen strop with the white paste ( probably talcum powder of some kind). I imagine that a Coticule would do the same or any number of other fine grit abrasives.

For a bunch of us we just like the pursuit of the perfect edge and thus over complicate things. The fact that we also monkey around with a number of different razors in various conditions merely allows us to be even more compulsive.

To me the minimum to maintain an excellent edge for years is a 4000 grit to restore/maintain a bevel and some finishing grit of 8000-10000 to shave with.

Just my $.02,