Quote Originally Posted by randydance062449
I have been away for a week and wanted to post this to you before.

I was reading a collection of woodworking articles on maintaining woodworking tools. One of the articles dealt with sharpening on Arkansas stones. The gentleman used kerosene as a lubricant as it is a very fine oil. To keep his stones in shape he would roughen them up once in while. It seems that the arkansas abrasive pasticles can become rounded and thus fail to remove metal as fast as they once would. The solution is to lap them on either a coarser stone or sandpaper. This
restores the stones cutting ability.


Food for thought,
Thanks for the tip. My razors need another hone soon and I am going lap my stones before I start.

Reading the discussions on this forum I get the impression most members can use their razors for weeks before having to re-hone. Mine usually lose their sharpness after 1 or 2 weeks daily use. Before every shave I strop them on a paddle strop. On the leather of the strop I use green wax-like stropping substance by Puma. I don't apply much pressure, I let the spine travel on the leather while stropping, the leather of the strop is not very taut. I use the same razor every day. What am I doing wrong?