Thread: Is it me?

Given your experiance with a shavette and the fact that the "shop" failed to properly hone the razor the first time it would not surprise me if the shop did a poor job the second time. You would probably be best served to send it out to an experianced member here, and given utopian's generous offer I see little reason not to. Those found here generally give the razor a shave test with it to make sure it is properly honed before sterilizing it and sending it back, this will allow you to rule out the razor as a possible culprit. Best of luck!!

Man I hope you take Ron up on his offer...
Two reasons here
1. To get you a "Shave Ready" edge
2. I can't wait to hear what the edge is like when Ron gets the razor before he hones it up...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Man I hope you take Ron up on his offer...
Two reasons here
1. To get you a "Shave Ready" edge
2. I can't wait to hear what the edge is like when Ron gets the razor before he hones it up...

I agree with Ron/Utopian as well as with Glen/GSSixgun. Take up Rons offer it will be like nite and day!

I too look forward to knowing just how bad of a job they did. Seriously, spend just a couple weeks browsing these forums and reading up on things, and you'll learn real quickly that if it's not you, someone from this site, or someone who knows someone from this site who is honing the razor, then it's probably not going to be shave ready.

FWIW --

I've found that if a razor passes the "cut the treetops" test, I can shave with it. [Others will disagree. I've never had _any_ blade pass the "hanging hair" test, and I'm sure it's me, not the blades. But I can reliably do "cut the treetops".]

The test:

. . . Hold the razor flat against your arm.

. . . Raise it off the arm by 1/8".

. . . Try and shave your arm hair, _without touching your arm with the edge_.

If the edge catches and cuts hairs, it's pretty sharp. If the blade just glides over the hair, without catching and cutting, it's not sharp.

Try it, see what happens.

Charles

As others have said, get it honed by someone on here, a blunt razor can do more damage, i have done this in the past, put it to my face face and when i try to shave, the razor jumps instead of slicing your whiskers=cuts!

Just a stray thought. What brand razor are you working with?

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Man I hope you take Ron up on his offer...
Two reasons here
1. To get you a "Shave Ready" edge
2. I can't wait to hear what the edge is like when Ron gets the razor before he hones it up...

Ron is so good he honed one of my razors without even touching it.

He told me exactly what to do, step by step, and I did it, and got a very fine shaver!

Remote-honing...there's a concept!

Originally Posted by LawsonStone

Remote-honing...there's a concept!

If Ron ever wakes up a strange planet the first words out of his mouth would be?

Phone Hone!

Originally Posted by Shoki

If Ron ever wakes up a strange planet the first words out of his mouth would be?

It finally worked!