Thread: What's Your Touch-Up Sequence

So assuming that there is no damage your blade and your razor just needs a touch up, what is your typical touch-up sequence?

I have a full set of Naniwas, so I typically do 5-10 laps on my 8K and 5-10 laps on my 12k. I have had very good results with this sequence. My reasoning is that these are the last two operations I use when honing a razor following bevel setting and sharpening.

Anybody else?

Alembic,

Weekly I do 10 - 30 laps on a hard leather paddle strop dusted with 0.5 micron CrOx.

Monthly I refresh the edge on a 10 or 12 k Naniwa stone, again, 10 - 30 laps followed by the CrOx'd paddle.

In the last month I have been refreshing the edge using 0.25 micron diamond spray on a Spyderco UF bench stone, again followed by the CrOx'd paddle. I have had with great results uising the Spyderco UF like this

Have fun !

Best regards

Russ

Originally Posted by Alembic

So assuming that there is no damage your blade and your razor just needs a touch up, what is your typical touch-up sequence?

I have a full set of Naniwas, so I typically do 5-10 laps on my 8K and 5-10 laps on my 12k. I have had very good results with this sequence. My reasoning is that these are the last two operations I use when honing a razor following bevel setting and sharpening.

Anybody else?

Same as mine, I call it "Drop 2 and go"

Which basically means drop two grit steps from where the razor was honed last, and go hone

If it happens to be one I did on naturals (rare for my personal razors) then I use the end sequence of the "One Stone Honing" technique that Lynn and I posted some time back, basically about 20 of those pigtail strokes on light slurry and then dilute out to clear water with X strokes...

Same here. I drop down to the 8k for 10 strokes and then go onto a natural finisher and then onto my daily strop.

It seems there is a pattern:

Drop to the 8K for 10, maybe 5 more reaaaalllly slow ones to damp, PHIG or Naniwa 12k.

Fabric, leather, shave.

Usually the 8k, then an Escher, J nat, or Charnley. Sometimes, I'll break out the Coti in lieu of an 8k, and sometimes, I'll break out the Shoubudani with Nagura and just use that....Like I did yesterday for that big ugly Filarmonica 13 they sold at Classic, I think. It's about 15/16, and does not like taking an edge. It didn't respond well to my Nagura system, so, I'll re set the bevel, and try something else...It shaves like a rusty steak knife....But it looks good.....!

How conform we all are

I usually do 5-10 strokes with a hint of slurry, then 10-15 without on my 10K, then on to a finisher.
I tend to strop rather vigorously the first time after touching up, about 60 Linen and 60 leather.

I like to catch my razors at the first hint of roughness before the actual sharpness starts to go so depending on the razor 20 passes on the Coticule or Escher or maybe just the CrO. I don't drop down unless I've let the razor actually begin to dull a tad.

Wow, lots of guys dropping right down to 8k to touchup their razors.....

I try to keep it simple: 3 seperate touchups with chrome (length of time in between indeterminate) before going to a finishing hone. I sometimes let my razors go a little too long before touching them up, and I've never had to drop below a 12k or coti w/ medium-light slurry.

Five strokes on a barber hone and I'm done!