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I dont know but i have never met a razor that doesn't need refreshing for over a hundred shaves, and not from lack of trying many...
Always interesting to see other guy's techniques. I also tend to shave half my face first but do a lot more stretching with my free hand.
Yeah, I agree with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin103
Maybe what he's doing works for him, but he sure seems to make a lot of strokes on each part of his face, and it sounds like there are still whiskers after the first few....
+1..............Quote:
Originally Posted by holli4pirating
I wonder whether that razor is sharp.
Yes no doubt the razor is sharp. I always use short stokes whe I shave whit a straight no matter whitch straight I use on that video I did a pass more but really my 2 pass whit touch up do the trick.
A guy I occasionally work with happened to mention to me that he uses a straight razor, which of course got the conversation going. He didn't know I use straights. He says he's used a TI for the last seven years (his phrasing was something like "I use a very nice straight razor, which is one of those vintage style blades popular one hundred years ago, produced by a company called Thiers-Issard which is French and it gives me incredible results plus I save a lot of money..." and I thought "yeah guy, I know all this" but he kept talking). He explained he does one pass WTG and loves the results. I was skeptical and asked him again to verify one pass WTG, and he confirmed that's his daily routine. The only additional comment he made was he gets better results after the weekend when he has a little stubble, so clearly he's not going for BBS.
I was intrigued, and could probably talk all day with another hobbyist met in the wild as it were, and asked him more, particularly about his sharpening/maintenance technique. He told me he has never sharpened the blade, and explained to me how a strop works (again not knowing I know all this... also although a nice guy he's a little full of himself so likes to talk and not pay close attention to what others are saying... but hey, none of us are perfect and incidentally that seems a common theme from those of us in this thing of ours!). From what I could gather, he doesn't use a paste either.
We talked about soap and brushes for a bit (about all I got in edgewise was I like boar bristle... he of course uses badger), and I gave him a Tabac shave stick (he uses some high-end stuff I hadn't heard of). I was going to ask more about how he's getting by with a single razor, no touch-ups, but the conversation was interrupted. He shot me a note saying he liked the Tabac. Next time I run into him I'm going to ask more about whether he uses pastes or is using linen with leather or what...
What works is what works I guess.
I did an experiment a while back about how long you can keep a razor shaving well using only pasted strop and regular leather stropping, after a few months i gave up because there was no sign whatsoever that the razor was not up to par. But seven years without paste that a totally different story, that said some linen is pre-pasted so maybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by HungeJ0e
A guy I know has two Dovos he bought from AOS three years ago. All he does is strop.
Some guys have light beards, tough skins, muscle their way through the stubble on their cheeks with unkeen edges, put up with mediocre results and are proud of it.
Looks like we are going off topic here.
I currently have 12 razors in rotation and they were all honed almost 2 years ago, there are a few that tug just alittle but not bad, my current method is two passes and done.
I’m sure if I honed them all again I would notice a difference but for now it’s ok but they are all going to the stones Jan 1st
100 shaves is doable on one hone. Slicing stroke, and good stropping and drying afterwards is vital imo. I did more than a few counts. Clean flax linen after 50 shaves and then after every 10 worked for me. I'm done experimenting. And I hone about 4x a year.
So, first, guys will shave with anything that will scrape off hair. I see some horrendous edges come in for honing. I always ask, and most say, “I shaved with it the day I sent it to you, it was tugging a bit and cut me a little”.
Back when I was working, I started most days in a gym, and I constantly saw guys shaving with nasty, rusty disposable shavers. So, some folk’s level of sharp is not what most of us would ever consider shaving with.
It’s all about the stropping, years ago a few of us did a test and stropped the same razor on a Chromium Oxide strop daily and shaved with just that one razor for a year or more. The test was to see what happened to the razor, the myth was the Chrome Ox would destroy the edge, (convex/round the edge) or excessively wear the razor.
None of that happened, after about 2 weeks, all the visible stria, (at 400X) was removed and the razor shaved smoking sharp for the rest of the year. No measurable amount of wear occurred. There is a post about the tests somewhere.
I first started shaving with one razor, a strop and a 6inch Ark Translucent, and pretty much kept it shaving with the same razor, a strop and the Translucent for 10 years. Now granted, those edges are not the edges I shave with now, but they were comfortable, bloodless shaves.
I do believe if a razor is properly honed and stropped on linen and leather one can maintain a good shaving edge indefinitely. With paste easily. With paste and a fine hone, like an ark, very easily.
We are honing obsessed and reset a bevel and run through the grits at the drop of a hat, but in most cases for maintenance it is not necessary. Guys were shaving with one razor out of a saddle bag for hundreds of years.
I get it, I probably have more stone than most 10 of you, I hone almost daily, I have more razors than most 100 of you, I find razors, in my shop! Where did that come from?
But yea, you can maintain a razor with just a strop, until you chip it. And yea, you can get a Gold Dollar to shave and shave very well. They are kit razors, but they have gotten much better than they were years ago, they still have issues, but the steel is not bad.
It is all about the stropping. Stropping is under rated, vintage linen is way under rated. I buy old beat up vintage leather strops for the hardware and the linen, most clean up like new and will keep an edge on a razor easily.
Agree with that recommendationQuote:
Originally Posted by rolodave