Thread: How many" touch up" before resetting the bevel.

Bevel re-setting confuses me. I know the theory behind it (that eventually touch ups become ineffective) but that has not been my experience and I have yet to reset a bevel on a previously shave ready razor. IMO if you use a stone for touch ups the bevel shouldn't have to be reformed unless you wait way too long, although the shaves would likely become intolerable before the edge degrades to that point. But who knows, give it a dozen years and maybe I'll find myself doing a lot of bevel resets lol.....

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Originally Posted by Jimbo

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Ahh, the answer to the ultimate question...life, the universe, everything

Originally Posted by Jimbo

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Thanks for your input!

Originally Posted by gssixgun

SRP tends to set a very high bar for "shave ready" but honestly a good shaver can shave quite well with way less edge, the last 1-2% is what we chase, where we spend the real money, and is totally not needed for a close comfortable shave ...

Lol, true, but some of us are just spoiled, after using chromium oxide Once it stops performing as well as it used to, I touch it up. Got enough in my rotation not to worry about wearing it down.

Originally Posted by Martin103

Every 5 shaves seems quite often to me, is it because thats what you do or is it because the razor needs it?

I've noticed performance deterioration with my stubble after about 7 shaves.. Some guys can do 20, some guys can do 2-3 (probably the Mediterranean types)

I have only had to reset a bevel once a razor once. I have razors with bevels set by Glen, Max, Dave, Dylan,Rene,Robert and a few others. I have a few set by myself. When I think the razor needs a bevel reset, I take it to a strop and do several hundred laps. I use a SRDP1 for the first set of laps and then another strop I have that is much stiffer and faster. At this point, I've found that the stropping will get me by most times for a bunch more shaves. Understand that I don't hone for fun or hobby so if I can avoid it I do. If the heavy stropping does not work, I fall back to a 12K for 25 laps, 15 on crox and 15 on .25 diamond spray. Then I strop again.
So far, this has worked just fine. The one razor I reset the bevel on was the first W&B I used to learn to shave. I looked at the edge and it was a bit rough.
Please understand I am NO expert at this. Just able to keep a nice edge and if required, create a bevel and create a comfortable edge for me.

Originally Posted by Theseus

In the 14 or so years before I found this site and all the AD's kicked in(including HAD), the only thing I needed for my two razors was a surgical black Arkansas. That stone kept the razors shaving sharp that entire time without having to drop to a lower grit. I just touched them up once every couple of weeks and they were good to go.

Sorry - I just had to dig out old post # 8 and state that that... is hilarious!! I nearly spit out my coffee!

SRP = AD's!!