Over-honing: When your stones turn red!
Bringing a razor from breadknifed to sharp each day,
can be a result of buying razors off of Ebay.
Handling stones, lapping them, putting them in the bin
can play havoc with the outer layer, the epidermal skin.
The outer layer of skin turns out to be pretty darn thin,
and it's softer than stone and gets worn away in
the process of handling and lapping those stones
as the battle for shave ready occurs on our hones.
How do we know when we've been honing too much?
That's when our fingers become quite delicate to touch.
We can tell when that has happened with speed
when our stones turn red and our fingers start to bleed.
No, that's not a cut at all, but the loss of our skin,
caused when we take on shave ready as a battle to win.
We might win that battle as we charge on ahead,
but the result, for me at least, has made my stones red.
