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02-01-2015, 10:02 PM #25
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Thanked: 22Let me try again:
An earlier post from bluesman7, who was getting ready to reset the bevel and hone a razor, ended with
"Before dulling the razor for re honing I did slice a little paper with the razor in just off of shave ready condition.
That was pretty impressive."
I took "pretty impressive" as meaning he got a smooth slick cut. Certainly not the same as he will get after the bevel is set. I realized that with the intention of setting the bevel anyway, he could have learned more by pushing the envelope. He could have made more cuts, to see if he could detect from the paper, the damage that was accumulating from continued cuts. This would just have been an experiment and possibly learning thing. Since he was about to reset the bevel anyone, no harm done by a few very small chips. The experiment would have shown that the paper cutting does cause damage, but also that the changes can re realized is it accumulates. I normal use, rarely would more than one of two cuts would be used. But let us say that when you thought you were done with bevel set, you made a paper cut that gave a small tick sound from one spot, sounding different than the rest of the edge. That is probably a tiny chip, and you will save time to get rid of it now rather than later. A few more passes on the bevel set stone, and another test.
Learn to get the most from your senses when using paper. If you were watching closely as you made the afore mentioned cut, you would have a very good idea where the chip was. If there was no chip, but a small frown, the razor may have skipped over the frown part without cutting, but may not have changed feel or noise level. If you were watching closely, you would see where it skipped over, and would realize the stone was noting getting to the edge from both sides at that point. Not only can it find points, it may find that everything is good until getting to a section of the edge, Too much pressure toward one end could be causing some chipping from the pressure. ??????? Lots of possibilities.