Thread: How does honing affect the spline of your razor?

Honing is going to put some wear on your razor's spine, no doubt. The key is - how much honing are you going to do?

My personal opinion, based on my experience, (restoration cases aside) is that you don't need to hone a razor very much at all. And therefore the wear on the back of the razor is negligible.

Once you have established the basic geometry of the edge (roughing in) with the hone (and on a newer razor this shouldn't take much), razor stropping (fine tuning) will maintain a keen edge for quite a long time (up to a year or longer).

Depending on where you are on the learning curve, YMMV.