Thread: Beginner here wondering about these straight razors

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'm new here and I'm wondering if these straight razors are any good?

If I should be posting somewhere else please let me know

Gotta are great razors.
Those particular two have a lot of hone wear from what I can see.
The second one seems to be in a bit of better shape.

Hey, I was just browsing forums to try to learn about strait shaving, and I must ask how one would identify hone wear?

Hone wear is the amount of metal that has been removed from the spine of the razor due to excessive sharpening on honing stones. If you look at a new razor and compare the width of the contact surface along the top edge of the blade to the same area as the top razor in the photos, you will see that a great deal of that surface has been worn away. That's what is known as hone wear.

Regards- Walt

The arrows indicate hone wear

If you are really good with the hones you could get them in shave condition. if you are not I would pass on those unless you are willing to send them out or want a practice project job later on.

The first one looks done to me. The second one maybe. You can never tell as some of these blades have been honed on dished out stones. I got a few that looked real good, no hone wear but that's because the spines were warped and the original owner saw that and didn't want to put the time in to hone it. And you could never tell from a photo. Some of these blades can take hours.