Thread: Honing Services in Vancouver

Important update: So I called the Sharpening House and asked if they honed straight razors, they said yes we do. So I went there with a cheapie ebay razor I am using to learn to hone and have not been able to put an edge on.

I got there and I was greeted by a very polite man who confirmed he could hone a straight. I then asked him is he uses stones, cotis, films or the like but no. He uses that spinning thing that sends sparks flying when the blades touch it.

This is the part when my conscience tells me to leave immediately but my manners tell me to find a painless way out. I then tell him that my blade is already quite sharp and that I was looking for a honemeister who would use different grit stones, etc. He replies that his spinning wheel is single grit and that the edge's smoothness comes from his skills using the wheel thing.

I then tell him that I may come back with knives and scissors to sharpen....

He is actually a very good knife and scissor sharpener, he has multiple positive reviews on Yelp. the disturbing thing is that he has a sign offering his sharpening services for knives, scissors AND razors...Which clearly he has no idea about how to sharpen...

His fee also seemed too good to be true, 8 bucks to sharpen a straight...

So, if you want your razor butchered go ahead...

hey my home towns on the island and i'll be passing through on the 19th, if you rolled your edge and your in a pinch i could always pack my norton 4/8.

I can help with honing if you pay for shipping to Seattle.

Shipping is cheap, and if its not crossing a border its some what fast. Maxi does top notch work.
I ship all my razors in there coffin box in the padded package you get at Canada Post. Never had a issue.
I should add that i send usally by light packet Air. Cost like 8 bucks and arrives in 3 days with up to a 100 in insurence.

Very kind offer, let me PM you to coordinate.

Originally Posted by PaPaMarmalade

hey my home towns on the island and i'll be passing through on the 19th, if you rolled your edge and your in a pinch i could always pack my norton 4/8.

email rustyrazorcompany@gmail.com

he is local to Vancouver BC and can help out.

Nice resurrection of a necrothread!

Cobre, it would have been fun to have given the sparkmaker an eBay razor just to confirm what would seem to be the obvious result.

My wife is going to an ISSCR conference in Vancouver in a couple of weeks. We went back an forth over whether or not I should go along and pretty much concluded it was not worth it for me to go. If I knew of enough of a need for Vancouver honing that would have tipped the scales toward me going. Is a Vancouver mini meet-up possible?

Originally Posted by Utopian

Is a Vancouver mini meet-up possible?

Very much so, there is a few of us here and we have now met 4-5 times, we try to meet every other month or so.

In regards to the honing offered by the shop in question, I have since learn to hone and have met other locals who also hone, one of them actually mentored me on the use of jnats. I hope not many people get their razors honed in that shop, the shaves would probably leave a ton of irritation, imagine, that wheel thing is probably 1K grit possibly a lot less than that.

Originally Posted by TrilliumLT

Shipping is cheap, and if its not crossing a border its some what fast. Maxi does top notch work.
I ship all my razors in there coffin box in the padded package you get at Canada Post. Never had a issue.
I should add that i send usally by light packet Air. Cost like 8 bucks and arrives in 3 days with up to a 100 in insurence.

That's hilarious seeing as how I can't get one from Vancouver in less than a week!

Originally Posted by Cobre

Very much so, there is a few of us here and we have now met 4-5 times, we try to meet every other month or so.

In regards to the honing offered by the shop in question, I have since learn to hone and have met other locals who also hone, one of them actually mentored me on the use of jnats. I hope not many people get their razors honed in that shop, the shaves would probably leave a ton of irritation, imagine, that wheel thing is probably 1K grit possibly a lot less than that.

I will PM you the next time I'm hanging out in the city for a day or two, sounds like a lot of fun.