Thread: Honing SHoulder - Has anyone had this before????

Originally Posted by Cangooner

So far my only honing 'injury' is a terrible and recurring case of honing mange.

Talk to Ironsidegnr (Matt) about the mange lol.

Welcome to the wonderful world of shaving with and maintaining a straight razor!!

You will find that we as in ‘members’ enjoy not only helping with advice and as you’ve found loaning and or exchanging tools and blades we also seem to have this perverse enjoyment of giving each other a load of crap! When Shooter said (Oh ya...PANSY!) it’s all in fun!

It sounds like your doing well! If you have problems you’ve got an army behind you to help out!

Gute Rasur /glatte Rasur, mein Bruder der Klinge

(it means: Smooth Shaving My Brother In Blades)

Enjoy the Ride and Have Fun!

This is not an uncommon thing. Many people get some relief from rigging a hone "sling" for the honing arm. Put a hook in the roof above the honing area, make up a sling in the same way you'd make a sling for a sprain or whatever, attach it by rope to the hook and adjust the height to suit your action.

Then put your honing arm in the sling and hone with the arm supported and gently swinging from the rope. It also helps maintain the horizontal level when honing.

Can also be used with stropping.

James.

Honing of blades (be they razors or knives) actually induces a fair bit of stress on a body (both mental and physical). While it does not require hard thought or heavy moving, it does require constant attentiveness and constant fine muscle movement.

I say honing is very relaxing...but what I mean is it takes my mind off of other (aggravating) stresses, and leaves me both mentally and (slightly) physically tired so that I can sleep well afterward.

Like many things here....YMMV, but that is my story

I look like a tool when we have PT in the mornings for work.

Every so often, someone asks me what the hell happened to my legs and arms...then I get to
drone on about honing and how it's not weird at all to have all these random bald patches all over me..




Nobody ever gets it.....they just stop talking to me and back away slowly...

I developed a callous on my thumb early on, but it went away after my technique changed. My most painful injury from this hobby was burcitis from flattening mystery stones for days on end. The Doc asked what I was doing that caused it. I told him, and he said, "Is there any way you can get a machine to do that?" I eventually lost interest in mystery stones, and now my shoulder is fine.

My shoulder set up for honing is a ceramic ball joint with titanium plates, screws and pins, it will probably outlast the rest of my body!
Talk to your Doc and see if he can get one for you to.