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Well... when I started out straight razor shaving, I expected honing a razor to be easy. After all, I was shaving hairs of my arm for years whenever I needed to hone my chisels, plane blades or...

Yes that would keep the bevel flat, certainly if you use a pasted paddle strop. In that case the barber hone touches up the keenness and the CrO is only included for some extra smoothness.


Bart.

First, allow me to officially state that you should approach this conservatively. If you have little honing experience, it's easy to make a razor duller than sharper and difficult to get it back.
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