Thread: Will a barber hone do the trick?

I know that barber hones are made to be used in between every couple of shaves. My Dovo 5/8 blue steel hollow. Became painfully dull after about 5 shaves. I have to admit I did the duty with a machIII tonight . I used the skin pulling techniques I had learned while straight shaving.(It has helped immensely) Kept a nice hot lather on the one side I was working on. When I finished, I switched over to the other side. BBS and no irritation

Btw the barbers hone and the fine leather strop

I want to restore it to shave I M In THE SOUTH. Cornth ,MS 38834

any expertise, if any one here with a stone that they absolutly dont need (WIll totally pay shiping)

I am forever in debt to you.

Please doth think poorly of me.


AnD Gssissgun Is who I think I would trust ith the restore of my W&B



I quess now is it feaszable to workk this str8 back to HHT pass using only the strop and the barber's
Hand Hone

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Thanks,

Forrest

I only hone once every 2-3 months, and a barber hone does quite well. After 4-5 shaves my question is ,hows your stropping!

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

I only hone once every 2-3 months, and a barber hone does quite well. After 4-5 shaves my question is ,hows your stropping!

The answer is...non existent, well except for on a newspaper. My strop should be in next week.

That might be your problem. Newspaper will work for a strop as long as you do it right, but if your razor dulled in 5 shaves, it's likely that your stropping is either wrong or insufficient. How much stropping did you do on the newspaper?

I find that while stropping on newspaper can be very effective (it's almost always the last thing I do after polishing a razor on stones and before the first pre-test shave leather stropping), it's slow. I've also used newspaper, both unaltered and also rubbed with a small amount of chromium oxide powder to refresh an edge. A approximate account of the number of round trip laps I find work well for me would be:

Plain newspaper: At least 50 laps minimum, and more often up to 100.
Newspaper dry rubbed with chromium oxide powder: 20-50 laps.

I use an extremely small amount of powder that really only "kisses" the newspaper in a handful of random areas. Then, it's rubbed in very well. The "X" pattern of stropping takes care of the rest. I tape two layers of newspaper very tightly to a lapped Chinese 12K stone. With this method, I did an experiment a few months ago, purposely trying to create a wire edge on a 4/8ths "silver steel" german razor (Korte brand). 100 laps on the chrome ox newspaper each night with a shave each morning. After one week and 700 laps with the same razor, comfortable shaves and no wire edge. It simply seemed to plateau rather than yield a razor 7x sharper than when I started. I am not a big fan of chrome on hanging strops since I have definitely found edge rounding to be a real factor; not so with stropping on the flat chromed newspaper.

Chris L

Wait for your strop to arrive. If it has a linen side do say 60 laps on the linen then 60 on the leather and see how it shaves. I usually do 40 on the linen and 60 on the leather but as your razor has become somewhat dull I recommend you do a few more on the linen. Remember to pull the strop taut and apply little pressure, never lift the spine off the leather.

If all that does not do the trick you may want to try your barber hone. After honing I usually do 15 on the linen and 60 on the leather.

Thanks guys.

I think my problem is that I ordered the razor factory sharp and not hand honed. Personall I think I may have been stretching it to get 5 shaves out of it without stropping, really.