Thread: On razor rotation and resting

Concerning the fact that razors of a seven-day-set mostly are marked "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday"... does not speak for the barber's theory.
A seven day set surely was a luxurious thing as Glen pointed out. Most people probably had one or two razors and that's probably fine.

I have, however read a post - somewhere here - saying that they actually watched the burr recovering to some extent, when giving it some time of rest.
If that would be a fact, I wonder, if it is then a good thing to strop the blade after shaving.

I really can't say if it belongs more to "fables and myths"... But Glen was right, it is at least a good excuse for more razors.

Thinking about it, to be really sure that my burrs feel well, I should establish a 365 day rotation, yes 365 sounds safe enough.

7 day sets were marketed to upscale clients. Purely a luxury item.

Barbers owned a few razors and kept them sitting in barbicide and used the same ones over and over each day.

That rest thing is another old barber's tale.

The longer you let your razors rest, the more razors you need to buy. This is a wonderful example of the means justifying the end. So, as you can imagine, I'm a firm believer in letting each and every razor have a nice long rest.

I have used razors that I've rested for over a year with no discernible difference except they had developed a small pot belly near the heel.

Yeah it certainly seems like very different advice than the rest of the collective knowledge.

Razors that need rest are just plain lazy.

I bet they are the younger generation razors; them old Sheffield razors never needed a rest.

iPod wearing Gen Y razors.

Hone Lazy Gen Y razors.

Originally Posted by DDTech

+1
The last two new DOVOs had an edge so poor, that I could understand any beginner, who tries it once, puts it into ebay ("not for me") and returns to the cartriges.

Before I started honing, I emailed DOVO to get some tips (I thought they should know). The answer was prompt but so unbelievable bad, that I wished they never answered.

What did they actually tell you?