Quote Originally Posted by BeJay View Post
I then did a light TNT after the 5k and 8k with the intention of keeping the edge straight and clean. I was also surprised that this didn't seem to damage the edge upon testing afterward.
On the TNT, I've heard guys say that it will damage an edge. I used to go to barber shops in the 1980s, with a few vintage razors, show them to the aged barbers who'd been cutting hair for 30-50 years, to break the ice. They would get theirs out and show me their stash.

Shaving was rarely done by barbers by that time, and I was able to pick up some cool old razors. I can't tell you how many barbers did a TNT right in front of me, with their working razors, to demonstrate to me that they were sharp. Anyway ...... I too limit the TNT to after the 1k. Beyond that it is the TPT (thumb pad test)

Dulling on glass was introduced on SRP by Bart AFAIK. He had proposed some sort of contest that never came to fruition. He was going to prepare some Double Arrows and send them round the world after he had them corrected for honing, and rescaled. He suggested that dulling on glass would give everyone an even playing field so that there was no doubt everyone was starting from square one ....... IIRC.

I tried it once. Then thought what the hell is the sense of dulling a dull razor even more ?

I first saw 'jointing' done by Harellson Stanley, famed tool honer, and the owner of Shapton USA. Someone did a video of him honing his first razor on Shapton glass stones. He also did his first straight razor shave with the W&B wedge he had honed. It was painful to watch.

He blew my mind when he jointed the blade on a high grit stone. Early on, may have been after setting the bevel, may have been before. But the second time he did it before final finishing. I had never seen or heard of such a thing in my long life before then.

I've tried it, but I don't do it since. I've had much success in standard honing techniques, microchip removal, and all. It is working, so I needn't fix it.

BTW, if you hit the enter key every now and again it creates a break in the text, as you can see from this post, and makes it easier on the eyes. Especially if it is paragraphs long.