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I am in the process of honing a 7 day set of vintage Solingen razors by an obscure maker. I found these on the bay maybe 5 years ago. I was familiar with the maker because of a razor I bought from...

I would encourage you to add a 30x eye loupe, or a low power microscope to your arsenal. Randydance, one of my honing mentors, told me years ago that those things were good tools to have before...

At the risk of being redundant, since I've said this before ...... when I was beginning my honing journey I bought new and vintage razors from some of the pro honers, custom guys and what not. At...

Doing exactly that helped me a great deal when I was starting out. Particularly in seeing that the guys who recommended honing all of the scratches from the previous grit out ..... before moving on...

Thanks for the clarification on the technique Tim. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the lower the magnification, the better my honing looks......... :p