Thread: Quick question I have not seen answered...

Originally Posted by Chevhead

So basically if I go with light to no pressure tape is not "really" necessary..


It sounds like a good idea to keep them separate!

I don't think it has anything to do with "necessity"; razors were honed for hundreds of years without the help of 3M. I just don't want any part of my razor, other than the edge , touching stone.

Originally Posted by brooksie967

I made lather out of soap and used it on the hone... man I feel dumb. LOL

FWIW, my 88 yr old barber instructor maintained all of his razors with lather from the latherizer machine on a translucent Arkansas stone.

My best friend in high school, his father was a barber, so all us guys on the wrestling team got our hair cut for free. I saw him take lather & smear it on a barber hone(didn't know it was a barber hone back then), stroke a few times on the hone, then went to the strop hanging on the chair, then back to shaving.

Originally Posted by HNSB

Some people do that too, and some of the newer barber manuals mention soap lather. I think I've seen it in instructions for newer barber hones too.

Yup, my Carborundum 104 instructs say to apply a thin coat of lather. Obviously soap or it would read something like "work the rubbing stone to a produce a "lather"