Thread: Fire Ash II

Originally Posted by AFDavis11

Without sounding over important, I hope, this was from a very well honed blade. I suspect that with a lesser honed blade it would have taken even longer to over do it.

I was wondering about exactly this. I've been using mostly blades sharpened by me since I 'pasted' my linen with cigar ash. My honing is improving, but no doubt my blades are shy enough of totally sharp that I can kind of go to town with the ash and not really risk overhoning...

But I've also just gotten back a few razors from Joe, who ground out a couple of cracks, replaced some broken scales and so on, but also honed them to perfection. These I've only used on ash a couple of times each. They were the smoothest shaves I've ever had.

Too many factors here, obviously. But for the time being, taking into account what you all have said, I guess I'll go easy on the ash at least with Joe's blades.