Thread: honing help Charlotte NC

I am also in Charlotte. If you have found someone please let me know I have just purchased a straight and would like help also

i met a guy named Gary Gordon he runs a mobile sharpening business but if you go to him he will teach you what to do and what to look for. he seems to be a nice guy but a bit odd, then again who isn't.
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Gary Gordon
A Finer Edge, LLC
12332 Homestead Place
Charlotte, NC 28277
(980) 229-1149
[email protected]

Thanks. odd is my speciality.

I am visiting from out of town and after this post I took two razors to Gary. One of them was brand new and purchased from The Art of Shaving. After two attempts I am still not able to shave with the razor he sharpened. Neither one. I am now wondering if he destroyed a brand new razor.

He is a very likable guy and is very knowledgeable about sharpening but I really think his expertise is more in the area of Kitchen knives and scissors. Did you have a better experience with him?

i did once with my first razor that was in no condition to shave with when i got it. after i brought it to him it worked but now i feel it wasn't sharp enough for shaving against the grain where as i thought it was my inexperience preventing me before. i have sense started sharpening myself. im sorry that this didn't work out for you not even the art of shaving could help me find a sharpener in the area. and he was all i could find. maybe ill do some more looking and talk to some people to find an alternative in the aria.

I will give you new guys a big heads up. Sharpening a razor is a different animal all together then sharpening tools. The folks that sharpen tools will tell you otherwise and think they can put an edge on anything, sadly they are NOT knowledgeable enough to know the difference. Save your money and your straight till you find a guy that knows what he is doing with a razor. Plenty of guys have gotten discouraged and given up on straights because of bad experiences with poor honing. Nothing beats a shave with a straight, but it has to be honed properly, if not a disposable is better.

mr gordog did put the effort in to make me helieve he could sharpon a razor he invested in a razor to learn how to sharpon one and said a lot of the same things i hear on all of the tutorials and he offers it as one of his services on his site its not just something i asked of hime and he said that he could do

Originally Posted by phcullen

mr gordog did put the effort in to make me helieve he could sharpon a razor he invested in a razor to learn how to sharpon one and said a lot of the same things i hear on all of the tutorials and he offers it as one of his services on his site its not just something i asked of hime and he said that he could do

How did it work out for you?
Those that hone razors do just that. They are not lawn mower blades or hedge clippers, they are razors. Like I said , a different animal altogether. As you learn here you will see that this comes up often enough and for the most times, doesn't work out.
I sharpened my knives to a wicked edge before I started with straights. Thought, how hard or different could it really be? Well. it took mr a bit of time before i could hone a razor to any type of quality edge. I sent razors out to some of the guys here and always got a great edge from them. Practice and time was the only thing that got me there and I'm still no where near as good at it as the guys that do it for money. I'm sure they guy had nothing but good intentions doing your razor. It's just different plain and simple from any other edge.

Originally Posted by phcullen

mr gordog did put the effort in to make me helieve he could sharpon a razor he invested in a razor to learn how to sharpon one and said a lot of the same things i hear on all of the tutorials and he offers it as one of his services on his site its not just something i asked of hime and he said that he could do

The problem is learning how to hone a razor for others takes more than practice on one razor. If you hone for you a few razors is fine, you will learn how to hone them to your satisfaction. Honing for others is not the same thing. There all kinds of "surprises" one can expect when honing for others. Blades are not quite straight a lot of hone wear, pitting on the bevels, frowns. Those kinds of things take some practice to learn how to correct. Also honing razors is acquired skill that one can forget, so to keep in shape one has to hone razors on a fairly constant basis to keep some kind of form.
I am just giving you some perspective in general, I know guys that hone razors and sharpen knives and are good at both.