Thread: Why kill an edge

Interesting!

I'm in the middle of muddling my way through a Tuckmar that was NOS, and just does not want to form a nice edge to the bevel.

I can get it to shave okay, but never at the level of my other razors. Fresh off the hone it feels more like a razor with a week and a half under its belt.

Having spent a lot of time looking at the edge in between honing I've come to the conclusion that the edge might be over hardened due to evidence of likely chipping on the very edge of the bevel. Also in some areas the material near the edge looks like it had suffered corrosion at a micro-level. So I'm now taking off material from the bevel until I can get to shave off the 1k. The more material I take off using the 1k, the better the edge of the bevel starts to look,confirming my gut feel that was telling me I need to find fresh steel.......... If I eventually succeed then I'll be in 100% agreement with the 3 killed edge technique!

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