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I would strop the razor and shave your brother.. if he gets a red face... send it out to get honed...

Maarten

Originally Posted by mlangstr

I would strop the razor and shave your brother.. if he gets a red face... send it out to get honed...

Maarten

Best advice yet! +1

+1 Mlangstr Thats great! How is your strop? So you are young it sounds, is a straight your first razor to shave with?

kinda... i shaved my paech fuz with a little electric "trimmer" and tehn i moved to a mach 3 for like 2 months, and those shaves would HURT!!! it would hurt to talk. Then I saw the movie sweeny todd and found this site, and then got a straight from the classifieds and started

o ya.. i did shave him.. he liked it?? but then I put on my alcohol based aftershave

could I just put some cromox onone side of the linen and stop on that??

Nicely done shaving your brother Lets hope he remembers the aftershave, either you scared him away or made him want a straight! Having someone else that shaves with a straight is good in the house hold does your dad shave with a straight? I am not sure about the cromox I have it on a strop and it is good stuff so if you strop the hell out of it maybe! If the damage isn't that bad.

but i got my parents to agree to making him pay to get it honed

excellent!

For curious people such as my own brother or dormmates I bought a Zeepk. Even though it's not good enough quality to shave I've found that it's a good way to appease their curiosity with straights without giving them a razor that is worth 50 dollars and 50 hours of my time.

The only real way of telling whether or not it needs to be re-honed is to examine the edge with a microscope to see if it has any nicks. Barring that you might be able to rescue some usefulness by using the linen. Give it 50 linen and 100 leather and see what it feels like. If it still shaves rough I would get it honed.

I followed the advice of 50 leather and 100 linen and it shaves well again

when you say 50 and 100 do you mean passes, or laps?

I'm glad you got it shaving again, I can feel your pain.

I bought my room mate a Boker and a vintage shell strop, a very nice one actually. I later wound up adding my favorite razor, a McPherson Frass, to his kit. Anyhow, I've done my best to teach him maintaince, but... My strop has a pretty nice little nick in it now from his stropping on it (he insists it works better if you put a little pressure on the blade, causing it to make an ungodly scraping sound. When he flipped, he was still traveling backwards so ran the blade nod only cutting edge forward, but pressuring the cutting edge in to the leather. I'm lucky my strop isn't six inches shorter...) anyhow, he did this DESPITE owning his own strop, because mine is 'better' ie I don't run wet razors over it and it was previously nick free...

As a side note, I reclaimed the Frass as a rescue mission. He closed the razor and put it back in the casket still soaking wet and left it like that for days... After I saw my previously prestine pride of my collection (nothing else has ever taken an edge like it) rusting up, I just couldn't take it. :P

For the sake of peace in the house hold we no longer discuss shaving, maintainance or the McPherson Bros. and most certainly not stropping.

So rest assured, some day you'll move away from your brother and have a whole new set of problems.