Thread: A circle stroke for smiles

As i was finishing up my first smiling blade i found a stroke that works for me, and might for some of you.

Of course i watched the applicable vids first.

And I didn't quite get the edge there the first time. This was "go back" second honing that got me to this stroke. I'm shave testing today.

Holding the blade 45 degrees to the direction of travel, I use my fingers to keep me on track of where the pressure needs to be such that:

Start with finger/thumb on heel end of blade traveling 1/3 length of stone,

Adding other hand (finger) to toe such that two fingers are on blade (emphasis in middle of blade) where i do a middle 1/3 circle (a big one).

Then removing finger from Heel and finishing the stroke across last 1/3 of stone with finger only on Toe in an X stroke fashion.

Did anybody follow? Takes some slow practice, but this gets all the convex blade and keeps the bevel even.

It's my Rolling Circle X. HNY!



(yes i'm sure it's been done before everything has.)