Quote Originally Posted by Utopian View Post
Most of the time, I feel the same way about joining or jointing an edge. It's just not necessary. The edge is formed by the meeting of the planes of the bevels. That's it. That's all the edge is. You drag the edge along the corner of a hone and the bevels no longer meet so you have to hone more to get the edges to meet again.

Utopian. You say that most of the time it's not necessary, implying that it sometimes is necessary. In what situation would you use this technique? it's not a toothy edge that I'm trying to address. It's a malleable foil edge that just bends out of the way when it's laid on a stone. I'm sure we have all seen this under magnification. I'm hoping to address this at a level that I can't see with my 60x loupe.