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

Originally Posted by Martin103

Thats really impressive, that must be one really good surgical! And do you find you get better edges now then before or comparible to your edges with the surgical?

I get better edges now, but only because my technique has improved greatly since finding SRP. I still use the black and a translucent Arkie to finish some of my razors. They work exceptionally well on harder American steels,IMO.

every 5 shaves I go on my coti for touchups to my razors..but I dont go to my DMT1200..unless I get a new razor or rehone someones razor for them..

Originally Posted by smalltank

every 5 shaves I go on my coti for touchups to my razors..but I dont go to my DMT1200..unless I get a new razor or rehone someones razor for them..

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

If my CrOx pasted paddle won't improve the edge anymore, I'll drop to a Coticule with light slurry, then plain water or my Norton 4k/8k. It takes me a long time to get to that point though, probably 30-40 shaves at least.

Seems like if some guys can keep a razor going for quite a while on just leather,
and eventually go to a pasted strop when that no longer works,
and then to a barber's hone or other finisher when that fails,
and then back to an 8k,
and then...etc.

I mean, I reset bevels more often than I need to on some of my beater razors just for practice, but for someone who knew what they were doing, unless they dinged the edge or something, they could probably go almost forever before truly resetting the bevel.

well..I used to go 2 months before it would tug n pull..needed to send it out to be rehoned completely...I have a VERY coarse beard..I figured 5 as the edge goes down in keenness a bit..although I might have to go longer..to get a better number of shaves or time when I REALLY need to rehone em..and I dont mean going on my DMT to get an edge back