I’ve lately sold a few of my razors and again find myself spending longer than I really intend sharing my subjective opinion on what new users ought to do with them. Of course there are guides out there (and plenty of videos but I’m happy to leave that part to others) but somehow I still feel compelled so I might end up writing one of my own. In order to combat this, I’m trying to gather a comprehensive list of contemporary guides and maybe pick a favourite.

I’ve tried to exclude any that are too superficial, just copied/summarised/LLM’d from elsewhere, or have outright bad advice. Did I miss any good ones? Did I include any I shoudn’t have? Let me know and I’ll try and keep this updated.

Overall (some incl. honing)

• Badger and Blade
• canadaeh97 2 3 4 (Reddit)
• CpnStumpy (Reddit and also sometimes here @CpnStumpy@sub.wetshaving.social)
• Kent of Inglewood
• Portland Razor
• Sharpologist
• Slash McCoy (B&B)
• The Invisible Edge

Honing

• Diamond-pasted balsa (B&B)
• Lapping film (B&B)
• Science of Sharp
• The coticule.be archive