Thread: Touch up honing

Originally Posted by gregs656

After reading about someone else knocking their razor on the faucet, I promptly did it my self, and have slightly rolled the toe of my razor.

What do I need to buy to fix this my self?

Cheers folks,
Greg

If it's really rolled and not chipped, then the cheapest option is to try and unroll the edge. I've done this successfully twice by stropping the razor on the edge of the countertop. My counter has a rounded front edge and I stropped the razor on that until the edge unrolled. Then I took the razor firmly to the linen for a few hundred laps, then to a pasted paddle or barber hone if you have one. It won't necessarily be perfect but it may get you close enough to shave again. One of mine came back perfectly, and the other one still had a little bitty nick but has shaved just fine for years now - you don't actually have to have a perfect edge to get a good shave, there's a bit of wiggle room with small fleabite nicks. You do need to make sure that the edges of the nick are smoothed out so they won't scratch your skin, and that's one of the things the linen does.

Originally Posted by mlangstr

Hey Disburden why would you do the Coticule with slurry after the DMT? the coticule with slurry would set the bevel that was already set with the DMT.. just wondering.. maybe smooth out the scratches made by the DMT?

Getting Nortons on this side of the pond is a bit difficult.. I havent found a european source for them and the shipping costs are almost half of the price of those stones..

Now I am perfectly happy with the DMT/BBW/coticule setup.

Maarten

My coticule isn't that fast of a cutter at all. It can cut steel with slurry but not nearly enough to set a complete bevel like Bart's can for example.

I can still shave with it no problem.

Maarten has very generously offered to hone it out for me, and I am going to take him up on that.

I'm expecting quite a nice lump sum to drop through my door after an accident I had on my motorcycle last year (some one pulled out on me) so I think I'll treat my self to at least a barbers hone for upkeep, and maybe a 4 and 8k one, depending on how many more razors I buy!

Thanks for all the advice guys, it's much appreciated.

Originally Posted by Disburden

My coticule isn't that fast of a cutter at all. It can cut steel with slurry but not nearly enough to set a complete bevel like Bart's can for example.

I understand but If you set the bevel with a DMT, setting it again with the coticule seems a bit redundant..I only use my coticule to finish with water after the BBW.

Maarten

Originally Posted by gregs656

I'm expecting quite a nice lump sum to drop through my door after an accident I had on my motorcycle last year (some one pulled out on me) s .

Hope you didnt get injured too much... unfortunately I'm motorcycle less at the moment.. maybe when the kids are older....


Maarten

Originally Posted by mlangstr

Hope you didnt get injured too much... unfortunately I'm motorcycle less at the moment.. maybe when the kids are older....


Maarten

No, not too bad, I had to have 10 hours or so of physio on my shoulder, but nothing bad really. Get back in the saddle for sure!