Honing Showdown - SuperCurve vs DivotHone 

Very nice shave! Glenn is a great guy! Convex honing is certainly intriguing.

Looking good Bill!

Hey Bill, Thanks for the shout out. Great meeting you and glad you are enjoying the mount. Enjoyed the video! Best regards, Glenn

Excellent shave, Bill. I repeated a couple things you said. I sourced you and didn’t plagiarize. Good monologue. Your 44 minute video was my honing timer for finishing my 2 new razors. My new video up soon.

If it’s the camera mount I’m thinking of it’s the Gorilla Pod.

Good, informative video. I agree that a straight razor user should be able to hone his (or her) razors. No knock against anyone who prefers to rely on the services of "professional" honer exclusively; I just don't see how such a practice will bring the same degree of satisfaction as being able to hone a razor to one's own particular level of comfort. Of course there's the risk of damaging or even ruining a razor through poor technique; but, as you point out, ordinary use impacts a razor's edge so that some degree of "self-honing" becomes part of standard maintanence. I bought one of Jarrod's Gold Dollar 1996s before he decided to stop selling them. It yeilded a much smoother shave than the Gold Dollar 1996 the I honed on flat stones. I am not quite ready to buy one of Jarrod's shaping plates and convex all of my whetstones; I have, however, purchased one of the "tiny coticules" to which you refer along with a small convexed hard Arkansas stone that Jarrod offers as a convexed finisher. The use of these two stones seems a very economical, and less time consuming, way to create a concave bevel on those of my razors that aren't giving me the most comfortable shaves from flat stone honing.