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    Production Honing

    Those of you that do production honing or hone a lot of razors at a time, Do you have a system?

    I have a problem honing several razors at a time. I hone a batch, 6-10 razors at 1k, then progress up the hones. Sometimes I have to stop mid-way through the hones and can’t back to them for a few days. Life gets in the way.

    I’m not always sure where I left off with each razor. I have been thinking about a colored dot system or a piece of masking tape on the scales, writing notes of which hones have been completed.

    Anyone have a simple system? Or do you hone one razor at a time?

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    i do 90% of my honing from 1-4am ..lol.. so i have no problem with things gettin in the way ... but i have stepped away with a few not done ill finish everything on one stone and put that stone away and leave my next one in line so i know where im at ... i like the idea of maybe a dot with a marker or such though ... i admit though that i did just find one on the dresser that that was still taped on the spine from the other day .. i knew the bevel was set but had no clue from there so i just started from there on the coticule and finished it ...

    i had a log before but i think im gonna start a new one cause ive been finishing everything on the coticule ( attempting to ) lately so i wanna know what razor i finished on what and what progressions i used ...

    it will be interesting to hear what others do if anything at all.....

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    I usually hone 5-10 razors at a time.

    I do something similar, I use on stone until all my razors are finished on that stone and then move on.

    I usually set bevels for an entire evening. I restore blades, so this is usually pretty labor intensive to do repeatedly.

    The next night I walk the blades as a group through my stones until they are all finished under running water on my 12k Naniwa.

    Then, depending on the blade they may get 5 laps on CrOx or some other media.

    Then each blade gets 40 linen, 60-80 leather depending on the blade.

    Finally I HHT each blade just to make sure I didn't leave any dull spots on the blades.

    If I did, I re-finish them on the next evening.

    Thats how I do it.
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    I do all razors on one grit level, then move to the next.
    The longest work is the bevel set, after that it is pretty quick if all done correctly at the 1k.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Euclid440 View Post

    I’m not always sure where I left off with each razor. I have been thinking about a colored dot system or a piece of masking tape on the scales, writing notes of which hones have been completed.

    Anyone have a simple system? Or do you hone one razor at a time?
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    I do all razors on one grit and then move to the next. I try to not hone in batches bigger than 5 razors at a time. If I have to stop, then I leave Post-It-Notes on the workbench with the details of where I got up to and the razors in seperate little piles in front of the Post-It-Note. Easy.

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    I go one grit at a time. Depending on how the razors start, I may take a few sittings on the 1k, but then I usually to the rest (in grit stages) all in one sitting.

    Biggest advantage is that you prep the stone once, then do all the work, then move on to the next.

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    I only hone one razor at a setting, that's only when I get a new razor or one in my rotation needs touching up.
    Never had two razors that needed honing at the same time.

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    Although I usually only do one at a time I have been known to do more than that. My biggest problem is remembering what I did to "this" one last time! I should keep notes!

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    I always do one razor to completion. I toyed with the "one stone at a time" approach but just found one razor at a time to be the most convenient and least confusing approach for me.

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