Thread: How often do you do touch up of your razor?

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.

Originally Posted by Kees

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.

So, will you share with us what kind of stropping technique you experimentating with?
Thx.

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

Originally Posted by Bruno

I still have a restored Greaves sitting on the mantlepiece, waiting to be honed. It's been there for several months

I completely understand above feeling about honing freshly restored razor.