Thread: What are your honing routines like?

Originally Posted by sami

How many shaves (or passes) do you perform before you have to go to hone or pasted strop?

I get 20 - 30 shaves with the majority of the razors I have shaved that many times with. One or two passes is all I generally ever use during a shave

This is not a benchmark though, it's just what I notice with my own stuff

I strop about every other shave and get about 30 shaves from a honing. I update the edge with about 10 passes on a barber hone every two months or so. That would equal once a month, per razor, with two razors in rotation. In reality I hone two razors about every 60 days. Takes about 2 minutes total.

I always do this when shaving as I apply lather to the barber hone.

Since I take a few days off from any kind of shaving, or throw a DE shave in once in a while, it's really not an exact formula. Just a ball park estimate.

Hope that makes sense.

To be honest, razor maintenance can get pretty boring and uneventful.