Thread: Honing a concave / warped blade

Roy, can you expound on that? I've heard that before and have tried it a little but it makes no sense to me. There still remains the other 2'' of hone that gets in the way of (or holds up) the rest of the blade that you are trying to avoid.Or should i just try and find the video?

Originally Posted by tintin

Roy, can you expound on that? I've heard that before and have tried it a little but it makes no sense to me. There still remains the other 2'' of hone that gets in the way of (or holds up) the rest of the blade that you are trying to avoid.Or should i just try and find the video?

See if this link works now

By the way, if it does--you'll find lots of 'conversation' about the technique.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...than-mile.html

I would like to see a vid of the honing using the 1” line method

Originally Posted by cudarunner

While for now we can't bring up past posts links to show what happened--basically Glen (GSSIXGUN) had me either imagine or draw a 1" wide line on my hones (I drew the lines) and then concentrate my honing on only the 1" wide area.

I'd struggle for hours and within less than 1/2 an hour I had a nicely honed and smooth shaving razor.

Just some food for thought

Originally Posted by Jnatcat

I would like to see a vid of the honing using the 1” line method

It's nothing special, just basically trying to float the toe of the razor a bit and use an x-stroke to hone the entire length of the concave side on or very near the heel corner of the hone. Personally I prefer a narrow or slightly convexed narrow hone for warped razors.

Interesting idea eKretz, an idea inspired by slip stones for honing concave gouges or even something like scythe hone. Such a hone would surely make honing warps easy peasy as well making easy work of smiling wedges which normaly require you to do a rolling x stroke. But with a radiused hone, It would be quite intuitive. Would be kind of a PiTA to make a lapping template to keep it radiused though but I have used radiused sanding blocks for guitar fretboard work that might fit the bill.