So, I am interested how often do you do touch up of your razor.
I have 5 razors in rotation and I do light touch up (Coticule with water only) every 7-10 shaves.
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So, I am interested how often do you do touch up of your razor.
I have 5 razors in rotation and I do light touch up (Coticule with water only) every 7-10 shaves.
Not sure how to answer th poll. My hollow ground razors usually get touched up after 7-10 shaves. My wedges and near wedges I can easily stretch out to 15+ shaves.
Varies with the razor. It's really impossible to answer the poll. Some I have to touch up after 15 shaves and some go for years.
King2011,
I believe in the 'little and often' approach, so my daily razors get touched up on a CrOx paddle after seven (7) shaves. Once a month they get touched up on a Naniwa 12k.
This is probably on the side of too much, but my chops don't complain :)
As Utopian has said it is easier to keep a razor sharp than to sharpen a razor :)
Have fun !
Best regards
Russ
I voted, but the reality of the answer is "whenever I feel that they've begun to tug". It's immediately pulled from the rotation and placed into the "touchup/hone" jar.
I use my razors as a seven day set and do the touch-up about once a year. That makes more than 45 shaves per razor?
Touch up every 5-10 shaves until now. As I am happy now with my honing results I started experimenting with different stropping techniques and found that my edges start to last longer. So if you ask me next year the answer may well be very different.
I voted 30 to 45. I honestly don't know but I generally don't touch up my razors for the simple reason that I don't feel like taking out my hones unless I have to. This also means that I regularly shave with a razor of which the edge is not something I would sell as shaveready.
With good technique you can get a decent shave with a reasonable edge, which is something I usually settle for. My best shaves are when I shave with a newly restored razor or when I decide to sell a razor and hone it for that purpose.
Restoring / making razors is something I genuinely enjoy, and thus spend most of my time with. Honing razors is like washing the dishes after a good meal. I still have a restored Greaves sitting on the mantlepiece, waiting to be honed. It's been there for several months :o