Thread: Best way to hone this blade

Originally Posted by MrZ

It’s easy. Wrap it in bubble wrap and put it in a box. Then you mail it off to one of the honemeisters that are here and you are done. Less than fifty bucks and it is absolutely perfect. Outback put an edge on my Joe Elliot that is amazing. GSSxguns is pretty well known for his edges. Leave to the pros!

Hmmm... I may send a blade off one of these days, to compare edges, when I think I have gone as far as I can go without further input. But sending every blade off to be honed? Where would the fun be in that? I have 34 blades here waiting to be honed, which by my calculations should keep me out of trouble for about a year. And by then, I should have improved enough for it to be worthwhile to go back to the beginning and do them all again. I appreciate that some people like to send their blades off, but for me, that would pretty much make the whole thing pointless.

Edit: By the way, my other smiling blade is a Joseph Elliot, and it is also a great razor which is a pleasure to hone and to use.