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Pick up an junk razor in your hand and hold it as if honing. Now let the blade flop outside your hand, out of the way, edge pointing outward away from skin, scales still in hand. Keep the razor in...

You are quite right of course, that edge repair and bevel setting require significant pressure. For me, heavy pressure means the slack weight of my honing arm. Mrs Crescent knocked a razor off my...

It works better if you do NOT support the holding hand. Don't even tuck your elbow in close to your body. You want it floating out there like its in space. Don't think about where it's at. Let razor...

I been doing this for decades and I have been advocating honing in hand ever since I stumbled on to the fact that that newfangled internet thing had razor discussion forums, but I never found a way...

100% agree. Learn to refresh an edge first. You do that all the time, anyway, even if you start with a shave ready razor. It's the logical gateway drug to honing. But some guys don't start with a...

Pics or it didn't happen. LOL

HAHAHAHA I'll win you guys over, yet! If you ever want to try one of my GDs, just PM me your shipping address.

I think there is a lot of confusion due to semantics. Best way to understand this is to use a sharpie marker. Make a couple of passes on the stone or film or whatever taking care that the spine never...