Thread: Naniwa & Spike Mystery

When I start getting frustrated with a razor, I find it's best to put it down, stop honing for a while, then resume with other blades. Once I've cleared my head and reassured myself that I do indeed know how to hone, I'll come back to the problem blade for a fresh start - including reinspecting/reassessing the razor.

If you can't hone anything else, then it's time to look into a number of things. Are you really setting good bevels (can you shave arm hair with them? how is TNT or TPT?), are all your hones well lapped, have you gone through a progression with no pressure all the way, what is the edge like at each step of honing? You really need to do investagative work to figure out which step is causing the problem, rather than saying method x, method y, and method z all fail to produce the final result I want.