Thread: How long does it take to hone a razor.

I didn't answer the poll because I don't believe there is any average. If anything if your talking about touchups only there is still a wide variation maybe between five minutes twenty.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I didn't answer the poll because I don't believe there is any average. If anything if your talking about touchups only there is still a wide variation maybe between five minutes twenty.

What he said.

Once the bevel is set it goes pretty fast. I use diamond hones and finish on (usually) a fairly fast barber hone. After the bevel, maybe 20 laps on 8k to get rid of lower grit scratches. Then a barber hone for 20 to 50 laps, depending on the cutting speed of the particular barber hone. Then about (on average) 140 stropping laps on newspaper. The bevel and the newspaper, each, usually take more time then all the honing in between does.

There is of course a difference between how long you need to spend honing, and how long you actually do spend honing. Much like shaving.

To get it to the shave ready shaving test point maybe 20-45 minutes including stropping.

To get it to the point where I'M satisfied with the sharp/smooth tradeoff...well, I'll let ya know after I finish with the one I've been working on since last October.

Well last night I honed two razors.. one only took a couple of minutes to set the bevel initialy.. the other took about an hour or more and I wasnt carefull enough and dinged the other razor a bit so there I was setting the bevel again.. setting the bevel of the two razors took 2 hours this way.. Then I honed them up on the BBW and Coticule in about an hour..

this morning I test shaved one.. stropped it a couple of strokes on CrO, then Linnen and leather and had the best shave with a razor I honed myself so far..

Maarten

I hone with ti diamond paste and brought my razor back in a couple of hours after thinking I could buff it on a buffing wheel. "Not make that mistake again" But it really showed me how tough the Thiers Issard tempering process really is. The edge has never been better and I just about blunted it.