Thread: Honing a new razor

Nos new old stock if I am not mistaken

If you are not yet sure how to check the bevel and edge under good light and magnification, for example a 10X loupe, then you are about to embark on a journey when you don't know your starting point. If that blade were mine, I would leave it alone until I figured out what its present condition is. Meanwhile, as I did, I would learn to hone on flea market razors that you cannot do damage to. Once you get one of those shaving, you will have learned enough to transfer those skills to a quality blade. At first honing is just making mistakes and learning from them. I would suggest you do that on a razor of little value and move on from there.

If it was me, I'd get it properly honed from scratch and that way you know that you are getting a truly shave ready razor that you will know how to maintain. Your razor might have a micro bevel that shaves a little bit but until a proper bevel is set, will never be truly shave ready.

lol ok. Well I actually got this razor with that very idea. I didn't expect it to be in perfect shape like it is. Then I read another thread about how it's a shame to buy an old razor for the purposes of learning to hone... Back to the bay I guess lol...