Thread: how much does your stroke weigh?

Luckily SWMBO is not at home and does not read this forum.


A couple of days ago she bought a new kitchenscale (hope this is the right word for it in english ) Today when I am home alone for a couple of hours I´m finding a better use for this unnecessary kitchen apliance.
If a similar post already exists I am sorry.
Testing all my regular strokes, this is the final result:
all strokes exept the halfstroke is done with one hand. and the weight of the razor is 5g/0.2oz.

Ordinary stroke or X stroke: Heavy:350-370g/12-13oz Ordinary:110-120g/4-5oz Light:15-20g/0.5-1oz Feather:3-5g/0.1-0.4oz
Circles : ordinary:180-200g/7-8oz Light(or 8k and upwards):40-50g/2-2.5oz
Half stroke both hands on the razor(honing out chips etc): 1000-1200g/21-25oz.

This is my honing arsenal, if anybody else has a handy scale and some time to throw away please post your results. I know I´m doing something right having honed about 90-120 razors to more or less shave ready, but it would be interesting to see if there are big differences in hone pressure out there