Thread: Hitting the "Stone/Hone" Wall and Climbing over

Keeping your hones clean and flat. If all else fails, lap lap lap

Razors with excessive hone wear may require more than one layer of tape. Great tips guys.

Glen: Decided to make this a sticky. Good info.

a couple brews will help with that bent spine,chippy edge frowning full wedge that looked so good on ebay!

Originally Posted by holli4pirating

I can't hone when I'm in a bad mood.

So when do you hone ?

One of the pleasures of honing for yourself, and not for hire, is honing when you are in the mood. If I am not in the mood I don't go near the hones. I also know when to walk away. If the razor is frustrating me I will save it for another day, maybe even another month. No deadlines pressing me.

Originally Posted by zib

Razors with excessive hone wear may require more than one layer of tape. Great tips guys.

Glen: Decided to make this a sticky. Good info.

+1
Need to sticky this and come back to it as well.

-Find a honing mentor if at all possible to show you the ropes & help you build a solid foundation. A few hours with a honing veteran will surely help to shorten your learning process.

-Have a reference razor.

Good stuff Glenn!

Originally Posted by tiddle

Cant take credit for that, learned that tidbit watching Lynn and Glen's vids..so thank you to both you guys.

Where are the videos at?

JKRJ

I keep a little notebook about all the razors in my rotation with information about the particular razor whether i use tape, how many layers, what stone was used etc, when you go back to that razor, bingo your in!

Originally Posted by Martin103

I keep a little notebook about all the razors in my rotation with information about the particular razor whether i use tape, how many layers, what stone was used etc, when you go back to that razor, bingo your in!

I like that idea alot. As someone like me who's hit the honing roadblock it really would help if I wrote down all the steps I've taken just in case I do crack the nut. Then I will have at least a foundation to start off on my next razor, or if I haven't succeeded,I'll know what to try differently next time.

For anyone with a Windows PC with a MySQL database, there's an app to keep records of honing and shaving which I wrote. It allows you to see the last time a razor was honed, what the next shave(s) were like, complete honing history, all shaves with a particular razor, stuff like that. It's free, and you can download it here.

I'm working on a version 2.0, which will have a nicer interface and more features, but it will be compatible with a database set up with version 1.