Thread: Help/Advice needed With My Straight Razor

Originally Posted by borchard

You may be right. i did the FIRST test. I'm taking it back into the Shave Shop today to see if it's my technique that's off, and not the razor. If not, I'm going to try to have it honed again.

Don't do this. Please. They did not do a good job the first time. The likelihood of doing a good job the second time around is, well, slim. There are many hone masters here, and several have offered to hone it for you.
If you like the edge whippeddog puts on a razor, it pretty much says your razor was not honed correctly the first time. The dog hones all my razors the first time, by the way.
There's a local knife shop here the sells straight razors on the side. They have a razor honing service they offer, but I've never taken them up on the offer. They couldn't answer my questions.
Does the person doing the honing shave with straight razors?
What equipment does he use?
What does he finish with?
It's a nightmare scenario for me to imagine a local guy honing one of my precious vintage straights with a grinding wheel, just like you would a hunting knife.

I'm going to take back to the Shave Shop to see if they can make it right, because they are good guys. BUT, if they can't get it right i WILL take you guys up on your offers. Thanks again