Thread: honing help Charlotte NC

I am new to straight razor shaving and recently picked up a pair at gun show and would like to get them sharpened up correctly before i damage them if there is anyone in the aria who has some experience and would be willing to give me a lesson it would be greatly appreciated

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.
A FINER EDGE Pricing
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?

Did you ever take a razor to Gary Gordon? If so were you satisfied?
Norman

Did you ever take your razor to Gary Gordon to sharpen it? If so were you satisfied?

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