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    Default Preference on honing multiple razors.

    I'm going to try honing a few blades this weekend and I just wanted to know what order you guys go in to hone multiple blades. Say you have razors A & B with pretty dull edges:

    Do you take razor A, progress through the various hones to shave-ready, and then move on to razor B?

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    Do you take both A & B to your first hone, then both razors to your second hone, etc.?

    I know it doesn't matter as far as the hones and razors are concerned, but just wanted to know if you found one way to be easier in regards to organization and tidiness.

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    if you know what are you doing then go by grit of the stone. Example. if i have 4 razor to hone.
    i finish on 1k set the bevel all of them then move on next girt stone.This way i know i am done with 1k and that hone is out of table.
    hope this helps

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    I prefer to hone a razor at a time so I don't forget what strokes that particular razor liked best. All the way to strop and test shave. Then the next razor. I'm still pretty new at this though
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    If I was doing multiple razors I would use Sham's approach. Particularly if I was using my Shapton pro hones as I lap them before each and every honing session. OTOH, if I had one out of the pile that needed a lot of bevel work I might focus on that one out of the group as it might take some time. Once you get going you'll find what works for you and decide what your personal preference is.
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    Bevel set all the razors and make sure every single one of them is equal from toe to heel... That is the time consuming hard part...

    Then work my way through the progression one stone at a time just like an assembly line.... The easy fun part...

    Warning: Different razors have different honing combos, you just can't do 20 laps on each stone with each razor and expect great results...

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    I do each razor till it's done on the stone that is out. If I'm starting down at 1k I'll do everything that needs 1k work. Than move to the next level of stone, than finish each razor up to that level of stone again, untill I need to hit the high end stones. Than it's each razor till finished. So once I hit the naturals I finish the blade individually.

    I do tend to keep my groups segragated though, wedges together, full hollows and so on. Helps keep the mind set on an even field.

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    I do all the bevel setting at one time with multiple razors. After that I take each razor individually up the progression. I used to try to do several razors at a time on each hone and moving them up together, but I found that I had a better feel for each razor if I stuck with it through the full progression.

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    Well, I usually hone 10 razors at once. If I'm only honing 2, I finish up with one razor, then move on to the other one.

    But when I'm honing multiple blades I establish the bevel first on all of them. Then I do the 4k/8k, and then finish. While I'll always stick with the bevel establishment together, I am moving towards adding the 12k with the 4k/8k progression.

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    I am going to be grinding out about 5-10 razors this weekend and I will be using the Sham-type approach.

    I think if you do em in batches, bevel setting and up to 8k are pretty straight forward and can be done en masse.

    After that comes the hard part.

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    I grab whatever hone interests me at the time, for whatever razor interests me. I usually try something different every time I hone. I figure at this point if I don't work hard at learning something new some of the young guns on here are going to know way more than me too easily.

    Everytime I hone I come up with a theory and then try to prove it's true.

    Just last week I came up with a new honing pattern that put the straitions perfectly perpendicular to each other on opposing sides, just to see what that does. It was as close to excitement off my motorcycle as I can get around here.

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