Thread: Honing specific to Stainless Steel

I've often wondered about this myself, though not having a SS razor I've never had to really get into it. But from my interests in knives and razors in general I would gather that the stainless will be more resistant to the abrasive qualities of the stone/hone/coticle requiring more passes than a carbon blade to achieve a similar result...

One thing I would try to impress on you is that when the guys around here say "LIGHT PRESSURE" they are so far from kidding it's kinda scary. See pushing down on the blade SEEMS like it would speed up the process but what I have noticed is it causes the blade to flex in a way that keeps the EDGE of the blade from being honed cleanly/evenly/properly however you'd like to put it.

My best guess and advice would be to take every bit of information you already know from your carbon blades and add that with everything you can possibly find to read about it, and then just assume it's going to take more time and more care than you think it should.

It's good to be back HELLO AGAIN SRP!!!

Honing stainless is really no different than honing carbon IMO, it may take just a tad longer but it should not be significant. If the razor just needs a touch up and not re honed I would suggest a few laps on a barbers hone as was suggested earlier.

Moved to honing

And I agree there is really no appreciable difference...