Thread: Hanging hair test.. How sharp is sharp?

Originally Posted by regularjoe

This is completely uneducated, but I'd guess if Lynn honed it, and you're new to the honing game, you're not gonna get it any sharper than he did. If it's not running smoothly, there's a lot of different reasons that could be at the cause, besides the razors sharpness. I had trouble with my member honed blade at first. But time and experience told me that it wasn't the blades fault, it was mine. I'd leave well enough alone for another month, and just practice shaving. If it's still not up to snuff, I'd contact Lynn before I did any self maintenance. If it's splitting hairs, it's plenty sharp enough. MHO

In addition, as a 5 month SR user, I can tell you I'm just now starting to get an idea for what it should feel like. So there's that to think about as well. HTH

Could it be my homemade strop? I thought I did a pretty good job on the second one - I left it unoiled and sanded It lighty to remove teh shine after glass bottling it. Is there that much difference in Homemade vs 'pro'made?

It'll shave my arm hair - but only against the skin - not above them and I have thin arm hair.

Every now and then I do a slightly different test, I wear my hair short, #1 on the clippers, sometimes I am a bit lazy and I let it grow some, just before I get the Wahl's out for a trim I take a newly honed razor and run it over the hair about 3/8" off the scalp, if the hair fly's off like grass from the back of one of those old hand push lawn mowers, I reckon it's good to go.