Thread: Barber honing advice - blade still dull

Originally Posted by zib

About 99% of the time, All I ever use is an Escher in lieu of a Barber hone.

That's really good to know. Barber's hone, Escher, martian rock, whatever - all I was looking to do was use one stone (at a time) to keep my razors sharp. I'm sure it's been asked 1,000 times but where's a good place to buy an Escher?

i think the trick is to hit the barber hone with 5 strokes at the first sign of loss of sharpness.