Thread: Average Number of Shaves Between Honings

Average shaves between honings: 127 +/- 130

James.

If you are only getting 3-5 shaves between honings, no matter what excuse you throw into the mix, like a tough beard, or whatever, you aren't really stropping.

Practice a little and you'll get the same number of shaves without stropping at all.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the strop, or the stropping.

If you can get one good shave then your honing is good.

Now I'm getting curious as well. I'm also cursed w/ a perpetual "5 o'clock shadow when shaved absolutely BBS" beard, so anything I can do to improve stropping, I tend to investigate. When you say soap, I assume you mean lather, right?

How supple is your strop? Do you find leather stiffness plays a role or not really? And do you vary your pressure @ all as you go?

This is really interesting!

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

Warren, keep in mind that I am addressing one person, with a specific problem. Those people not experiencing this problem may not need, or understand any of this advice. The art of diagnosing and correcting problems, without being able to examine the equipment isn't an easy or well understood skill. Remember your reaction when you ran your hand over my strop for the first time, and your eyes practically lit up?

Yep, in that moment I knew what 'draw' was, and I still appreciate the kind lesson.

10 to 15 shaves' depending on the razor, then I will touch up on barbers hone[Franz Swaty, of course] and then another dozen or so shaves before I will either touch up again or go to the rocks.
Stropping does mater, on some of my strops and with some of my Str8's I noticed I needed less tension on the strop and a slower more deliberate stroke to maximize "Keenness" of the edge.

Any way, that's my Universe for the moment,

tinkersd

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Average shaves between honings: 127 +/- 130

James.

im a bit confused.. is that somewhere between 3 honings per shave and 257 shaves per honing?
or somewhere between 127 and 130?