Thread: First Time Hone By Myself...wow!!!

As you can see...yes i am a noob. I don't pretend to have the knowledge base that many of you guys have learned over the years. I did want to share my story on the first attempt to hone a razor.

To date i have been pawning off my razors to a local knife guy that unfortunately is well versed on knives but overhoned two of my razors to where he took off a bit on the spine. Wasn't a happy camper but decided that i wasn't going to let that happen again so i took the plunge and invested in the following setup:

Norton Lapping Stone
Norton 4000/8000 Combo
Yellow Belgian Coticule w/small piece for slurry
Lynn's DVD

Spent some time watching and absorbing Lynn's video. Spent some time researching here on the forums and the more i read the more nervous i got. Decided to try my luck on my stainless Dovo. Watched the DVD one more time to regain some confidence.

Followed Lynn's guidelines he gave in the Dvd and did a 5/5 pyramid as the razor in question was getting pretty rough to shave with. All in all i had less than 30 minutes invested in the process. (including a 10 minute stone soak on the nortons, first time lap, etc.)

Tried the thumbnail test and thumb edge test and felt that it felt decent enough, no snags or obvious imperfections that needed retouched with a few more passes. Stropped it up about 30 times on Dovo Russian Leather and got lathered up to give it a test.

Let me just say...Hot Knife Through Butter! Wow!!! Had one of the best BBS shaves thus far and all i can say is thanks to Lynn for the great video!!!

I will have to see with the next razor if i am capable of duplicating the results and wasn't just lucky my first try.

I am confident now through it all that i'm never going to have to rely on someone else to do my razors for me any more!

Lynn is the man!