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04-21-2011, 01:50 AM #1
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Thanked: 20In the mood
I have to be in the mood to hone a razor, otherwise it will not work. Do you have the same problem? As we all know, honing is not a quick, slappy, careless function or practice. If you do it wrong you can ruin or brake the blade, I have done that to my regret. It is also time consuming, both the preparation for and the actual honing. I am glad I am not a professioanal honer, but when I get in the mood it is very enjoyable and the result is a nice smooth clean shaved face. The hardest honig razors I encountered are the spanish Filis and the Wackers, they most use harder steel. You really have to be in the mood to hone these razors. Juan
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04-21-2011, 02:44 AM #2
I can't hone well if I'm in a bad mood, but I don't have to specifically be in a honing mood.
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04-21-2011, 03:17 AM #3
I'm with Dylan on this one. I find honing to be relaxing most of the time, but just two days ago I had to hone three newer heavy grind razors and they all had microchipping along the edge. By the time I was done I could have thrown them all at the wall, but that was because I had trouble honing and have a couple of broken teeth that are killing me. I had to stand up and walk away knowing that I would never succeed if I kept at it. I sat down again last night and had no (well...sort of) trouble.
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04-21-2011, 04:05 AM #4
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Thanked: 13245I have to agree Honing is actually very relaxing, Bevel setting on the other hand can be a huge PITA
To keep myself in a good mood about honing I have learned to set a razor aside if the bevel doesn't pop the second time through... I don't push it, I don't get frustrated with it, I just set it back in the drawer, and try again the next day...
It took me a long time to learn this, in fact one of the hardest lessons I learned about honing, is when to walk away from a razor
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04-21-2011, 01:20 PM #5
I am learning this too atm. If something goes wrong a few times, just set it aside, and sharpen another razor. Sometimes I have a good day and 5 razors out of 5 are a success. You must notice when you have a good day, and sharpen so many razors as you can, and leave the sharpening alone when you have a very bad day
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04-21-2011, 01:26 PM #6
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Thanked: 1262I like to light some candles, get a nice bottle of champagne, some incense.
Don't just pounce on the hone and start grinding away. You need to prepare it first. Give it a nice warm bath so it can soak up water into its porous surface and relax.
A hone that is not ready will just refuse to give up slurry and everyone will go to bed frustrated.
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04-21-2011, 01:34 PM #7
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Thanked: 15I'll jump in and agree with being in the right mood, but another thing I have found is to not "just do it" whenever the urge catches me. Last night for instance, I had an hour or so of free time, I had the urge to hone one of my razors that needed some touching up. With my Norton 4-8K taking 20+ minutes to fully saturate with water, I knew that I may be out of the mood by the time the stone was ready. Rather than not being in the mood once the stone was ready, I just grabbed 3 razors that needed a good stropping progression, and took them from pasted paddle, all the way up to finishing. After doing a few hundred laps getting them all done, my urge was more than satisfied.
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04-21-2011, 01:35 PM #8
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Thanked: 235Not only do I have to be in the right mood to hone, I also need to be off work on school holidays. That means that my wife goes to work during the day and I stay home, clean the house and hone. I'm at the stage in my honing education that I like to stop at each point and look at the edge under the microscope.
If I'm not in the right mood, or I'm not home alone with no distractions, I rush through the honing process and end up with an edge comparable to a broken beer bottle.
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04-21-2011, 01:36 PM #9
I agree completely. Got to be in a honing frame of mind... though recently I scored a hone which gets me in the mood through just looking at it!
Giggety giggety.
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04-21-2011, 03:48 PM #10