Quote Originally Posted by Grazor View Post
Been playing with jointing the edge for a while, depending on condition of razor. Found the corner of the hone a bit harsh, the TNT works better for me, does the same thing. Basically you are bending the fin over and knocking off the high points at a molecular level.

Seems this is one of those "whatever works" threads.
One thing is for sure, once you get that edge right all you need to maintain that edge is a lead dressed strop ...
Oh boy.

The Science of Sharp guy, some of whose stuff needs to be taken with huge grains of salt, has some photos of a killed edge. The edges were killed on glass and the photos showed that the edges were folded over into a drastic "J" shape. When "jointing" is done along the corner of a hone, the effect may or may not be the same. I honestly don't know. It certainly is not at a "molecular level," but if jointing actually is beneficial, then I doubt if the edge is folded over in the way that it is on glass.